Identifier: mikadosempire05grif (find matches)
Title: The mikado's empire
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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daimiohas issued paper money current only inhis han. There are over one hundredlocal varieties in the empire, of varied col-ors, values, and sizes. The Fukui denom-inations were one-tenth, one-fifth, one-half : one, three, five, ten, and fifty cents.The designs on them are the God ofWealth, the treasure-ship which every Jap-anese hopes to have come in, the pileof kobans (oval gold coins) which he ex-pects to raise, bags of rice—the stand-Fac-simiie of Kinsatsu. Issue of ard of value—dragons, flowers, birds, and the zoology of the zodiac.The officer further said I must have relaxation. He offered toshow me the fairest and brightest maiden, whom I might bring to myhouse, and make my playmate. I thanked him, and accepted all hisoffers but the last. The night was clear and cold. The same familiar stars glitteredoverhead as those seen in the home sky. The wild geese sailed in thebright air, the moon bathing their plumage in silver. The temple-bellboomed solemnly as I lay down to rest.
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426 THE MIKADOS EMPIME. VIII. RECEPTION BY THE DAIMIO.—MY STUDENTS, The next day was a Sabbath in a Sabbathless land. I awok:e to•find a perfect day—a heaven of cloudless blue, and every thing quietand still. How should I spend Sunday here ? There were no church-bells pealing, no church, no pews, no pulpit, no street-cars, no pave-ment, no Sunday-school, no familiar friends. I walked to the gateof the court-yard and looked out upon the street. Business and traf-fic were going on as usual. The samurai on clogs, in his silk andcrested coat, swords in girdle and cue on clean-shorn crown, waswalking on, in his dignity, as the lord of society. The priest, in histiowing crape and brocade collar, with shaven head, and rosary on

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