The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-04-02
THE JAPANESE PEOPLE IN 1871.
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Girded Sword--Temper of the Weapon.


Girded sword--Temper of the Weapon.
Perrys visit Japan was as complete
an epoch for L.. people of that country
as Columbus to the native of America.
The latter disappeared under the alien
visitation. Dai Nippon has profited by
it, Events are dated in Japan from the
appearance of Perry just as we com
mence an epoch from the birth of the
Saviour. The Tenno lived in the Naisu-
Maru, part of the Oyeno or fortified
palace grounds of the old Tycoon.
Horticulturally, / remember, these
grounds were perfect, great camella
trees, beautiful flowers of all kinds, hand
some drives and the gardening culture.
The inclosure was moated and invulnera-
BILE to any attack devoid II artillery,
sheltered and guarded against any an
D.. cient form of warfare a great covered
central gate--the O-te-go-mon, gate of
the great hand-was the one we entered
by. Shrines, grotesque monuments and
queer tiled buildings were in plenty, and
men and officers, but no women. Not a
female face was seen IN or about any of
the official residences, except at the
entertainment at the Homa-goten,
Sawa's palace, wien singing and dancing
girls gave an exhibition during the even
ing. Japan is changing, so that pre-
sumo in few years all the old will have
disappeared and with it much of rare
historical and artistic interest.
When was in the country. in the in
terror foreigner was a curiosity, equal
to the first Chinaman or Jap seen by us
I., ,.icit mazda 70 ho a,,,p,it ,f
Fuii-vama in the summer of 1871 ! went
to the famous hot springs at Hakone;
at nearly every tea-house our party was
as much of an exhibition as Jo-Jo or the
woman with big feet is here. a colored
servant, dark as Erebus, whom | had
with me, was phenomenal subject to
the innocent Japs. The men and women
would come up to him, try to rub the
black off with their hands and be sur
prised they could not, and laugh over it
! with the contagious and hilarious glee
the people so much enjoy. My watch
would have been passport anywhere
into the Interior as they never tired
looking lat the wheels go sound" lnso-
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