The Days of a Man X\^\\ 



the remote parts of the country. Outside the city she 

 always wore a native costume of white. Any one 

 wearing blue, the color of both the Japanese uniform 

 and the coarse garb of the Japanese laborer, was lia- 

 ble to be shot from ambush. This condition was an 

 inevitable result of the military domination which 

 followed the murder of Prince Ito, a wise man whose 

 plans for the reconciliation of Korea have been 

 totally frustrated by the Japanese militarists. 

 The quaint Our time for sightseeing was as usual limited, but 

 old city ^g found it possible to visit certain places of historic 

 and aesthetic interest, while the life of the city itself, 

 quaint, conservative, and largely dirty, afforded con- 

 tinual diversion. Here we seemxcd to catch a breath 

 of "the unmitigated East." Through the imposing 

 city gates, locked at night, poured by day a constant 

 stream of foot passengers in white, porters bent low 

 with burdens — some of which were incredibly 

 large — laden ponies and bullocks. Along the main 

 Yang Ban sttccts Stalked the Yang Ban^ or native noblemen in 

 characteristic pale-blue, pink, or light-green gauze 

 robes, white, pointed shoes, and narrow, high, black- 

 lacquered "stovepipe" hats made of mohair. A 

 thin, long-stemmed, ornamental pipe usually com- 

 pleted the costume. 



As we visited the old palaces and temples in Seoul, 

 we were constantly reminded of the well-known fact 

 that Japanese architecture as a whole was Korean in 

 immediate origin, though back of Korea stood China. 

 At the same time I found, I think, the solution of a 

 problem that had previously puzzled me. In many 

 ancient paintings in Japan appear Korean tigers and 



1 Meaning "two divisions" — that is, the two noble classes, civil and 

 military; usually written "Yung Ban." 



