316 BLACK -KYKI) SUSAN. 



down to the heel. Indoors, the Japanese seldom enciim- 

 her tlieir feet with any covering, but in the sti-eet they 

 have oji short socks, the big toe being separated to fit into 

 the sandal loops, whilst the women waddle along oil 

 wooden clogs. Coolies mostly disyjense with clotliing 

 altogether, excepting a, narrow strip of loin cloth, whilst 

 the betto, or groom, and the cliair-bearers are mostly 

 tattooed red and blue, from the neck to the knee, m 

 grotesque designs, representing dragons and flowers. 

 (Plate XXIV.). 



Towards evenino- the streets were crowded with 

 })eople of every degree, and many made for the gardens, 

 resplendent with camellias, the wild cherry, and roses. 

 Having tluis spent a few days lounging about and 

 taking a general survey of the place and its people, 

 I, one fine afternoon, took my departure for Yeddo, on 

 horseback, along a very good i-oad enlivened by many 

 villages, shops, and tea-houses. The entire distance 

 occupying barely five hours, I reached my destination 

 before dark, having had a delicious cup of tea at 

 Kanagawa, the half-way house kept by an old \^'oman 

 and her daughter, — a pi'etty girl, well known to all 

 English travellei's under the souhriquet of" black-eyed- 

 Susan;" by Frenchmen christened '7a helle Espagnole.'' 

 It was she who, in 1863, so kindly protected poor 

 Lennox Richardson, mortally wounded by Prince 



