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men, and of good repute, marry an inmate of the 

 djoro-jas. There is a pecuHar mixture of innocence 

 and hcence in the Japanese female character, which 

 cannot but strike an European. Another instance 

 is the habit of both sexes not only bathing in the same 

 room, although probably divided by a slender rope, but 

 even with open gate, the mei-ry laugh of the bathers 

 often gathering quite a little crowd round the entrance, 

 — still one never witnesses any indecorum. 



Any one wishing to take an inventory of the different 

 classes of the people, their costumes and modes of per- 

 ambulation, need only take his stand for half an hour 

 on the great bridge of Adsuma, which spans the river 

 Okava, one of the most crowded thoroughfares in 

 Yeddo. Here a magnificent panorama presents itself. 

 Turning your back upon the Bay, to the west you 

 have on a clear day a good view of Fusi-yama, rising in 

 a depressed conical shape to a height of 14,170 feet, — 

 a very beautiful object. Around you lies the vast 

 mercantile quarter of the town, almost at your feet, 

 since the bridge upon which you stand, like all similar 

 constructions in Japan, makes a tremendous curve, 

 supported by wooden piers sunk into the river-bed, 

 thus raisinof the centre above the level of the roofs 

 of the houses ; those of the latter immediately within 

 view are mostly one-storeyed warehouses, and rows of 



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