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Title: Queer things about Japan
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947
Subjects: Japan -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, A. Treherne & co., ltd
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fiction, the wholeeditorial staff of an offending paper is now sent toprison. Rain is a feature in Japan. You have to sealup your gloves in pickle bottles or biscuit tinswhen the rainy season begins, and put a warmingpan in your wardrobe. The mildew is so veryfertile. The poorest Japanese has his mackintosh,which is made of straw, and costs about three half-pence ; he thatches himself, and wears a hat andumbrella combined, like the hat-sunshades ofHong-Kong. If he is a shade too well off to bethatched, he is yet useful to the artist on accountof his magnificent Japanese umbrella made of richyellow oiled and varnished paper. You can buythem at the temples. The Japanese keep theirbeautiful temples better than the shoddy Chinesetemples, but they are quite as willing to turn themto miscellaneous account if they are poor. TheTemple of the Moon at Kobe has its advertisementof Basss beer hung up on the notice-board ofbenefactors, and the exquisite little temple of Dai-48 ^ ie hack Cu p. 48.
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