Identifier: mysteriousjapan00streuoft (find matches)
Title: Mysterious Japan;
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Japan -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he inn. In the corridor I encountered my friend thelinguist. I want to take a photograph of that bathtub,I told him. It wont explain itself in a photograph, hereturned, unless theres somebody in it. I knew what he meant. An American or Euro-pean, accustomed to the style of bathtub that standsupon the floor, would naturally assume from a pic-ture of this one that it was similarly set. But thatwas not so. It extended perhaps two feet belowthe level of the floor; there was a step half-waydown the inside to aid one in getting in or out; itwas so deep that a short person standing in it wouldbe immersed almost to the shoulders. You get in it, then, will you? You ought to have a Japanese. But thats out of the question. No, it isnt. 294 MYSTERIOUS JAPAN Nor was it. By the time I got my kodak andput in a roll of film he had a subject for me. It was the little nesan to whom I had said scat!Nor could a grande dame in an opera box have ex-hibited more aplomb than she did when I photo-graphed her.
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?he middle-aged coolie hurriedly seated himself on the bank to pass us in review CHAPTER XXIV A Walk in a Kimono—Dinner at the Inn—Sweet Servitors—A n Evenings Enchantment—The Disadvantages ofRamma—My Neighbours Retire—A Japanese Bed—Breakfast—■Bears Milk—T fie Village of Nabuto—An Island and aCave—The Abelone Divers—A Sail with Fishermen E T ETS take a walk before dinner,said thelinguist when our photographic enterprisehad been accomplished. All right. Ill go and dress. Come as you are. After a hot bath I might take cold in this thinkimono. No. Thats a curious thing about hot baths inJapan. The reaction from them is much like thatwe get at home from cold ones. But, dressed this way, wont we look queer?I surveyed the lower hem of my kimono which hungonly a little below my knees. Its the costume of the country. But its awfully short on us. It seems to me weought to put on underwear at least. Nonsense. A man doesnt know what comfortis until he has strolled out

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