Identifier: hildrethsjapanas02hild (find matches)
Title: Hildreth's "Japan as it was and is" : a handbook of old Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865 Clement, Ernest Wilson, 1860-1941
Subjects: Japan -- History 1185-1868
Publisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hing special about the buildings worthnoting, the naked sides and exposed rafters havinga gloomy appearance. The altar is the only objectthat attracts attention. It so much resembles theRoman Catholic, that I need not describe it. Someof the idols on these altars are so similar to those Ihave seen in the churches in Italy, that if they weremutually translated I doubt whether either set of wor-shippers would discover the change. The priests countbeads, shave their heads, and wear analogous robes,and the service is attended by the ringing of bells, thelighting of candles, and the burning of incense. Infact, except that the cross is nowhere to be seen, onecould easily imagine himself within a Roman Catholicplace of worship. I saw some very pretty girls here. They under-stand the art of applying rouge and pearl powder,as well as some of our ladies at home. The marriedwomen have a horrid and disgusting fashion of stainingtheir teeth black. After remaining three weeks at Shimoda, which soon
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Commodore Perry HAKODATE 305 after was made an imperial city, the sailing-vessels de-parted for Hakodate, followed a few days after by thesteamers. Of the island of Oshima, near the entrance ofthe bay of Yedo, and close to which the Powhatan passed, the Tribune correspondent gives the iollowingdescription: About noon we were within three miles of the islandof Oshima, and had a fine opportunity of observing thetraces of volcanic action which it presents. The wholeisland is one immense volcano, the top of which hasfallen in and formed a great basin, which incessantlybelches forth white smoke and ashes. The edges ofthe crater are black, as if charred by fire, and on thesouthwestern side of the island a stream of lava reachesfrom the summit to the sea. Some large crevices con-tinue still smoking, and others are filled with ashes.A bluff near the sea, about two hundred feet hioh,appears to be of recent formation, for the bushes andtrees along the edges of the lava have a yellow, burntappea

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