CHAPTER XI. 



Japan — Yokohama — Catastuophe of 18G3 — Yeddo — Tea Houses 



TCHA-JAS AND DjOKO-JAS ToJIBS AND TeMPLES OK ShEBA OkI- 



CHiBA^A — ^ Japanese Ari, I'oRCELAiN, Bronze, Lacquer Ware, Ivory 

 Carving, and Silks — IIara-kiru — Yokoska, the Arsenal — Hot 

 Springs op Mtanooshta — Lake of Hakoni — Kanasawa. 



The Japanese, like their neighbours the Chinese, claim 

 an immense antiquity for their country, but the au- 

 thentic history of the kingdom commences with the year 

 B.C. 660 under the first Mikado. Their ancient creed 

 is Sintuism, at the present day counting probably no 

 more than 100,000 adherents out of a population of 

 thirty-five millions. This religion exists in no other 



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