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low-water mark, he found a young lady quietly enjoying 

 the warm bubbling water in the bright sunshine. 



There is a very beautiful waterfall six miles inland 

 from Katzura. The river comes over a slab of rock, 

 and falls, without a break, 275 feet into a deep pool, and 

 then runs away between great boulders and masses of 

 rock, along a picturesque valley, to the sea. The beauty 

 of the situation is not thrown away. A famed Shinto' 

 temple, built 300 years ago, stands on the slope of the 

 mountain, which curves amphitheatre-like round the 

 waterfall. Pilgrims from all parts of Japan come here 

 to pray to the unseen Spirit for those at sea and far 

 away. A magnificent avenue of cedar and camphor 

 trees leads up to the temple, and then on to the fall. 

 Some of these trees were twenty-five to thirty feet in 

 circumference, and otherwise of grand proportions ; but 

 the Government axe, which has been very busy of late 

 years, has fallen even here. 



Matoya harbour, eighty miles to the north, is of 

 great value to vessels coasting; from the Inland Sea to 



' Some readers may not know that Shintoism and Buddhism are 

 the only two religions of the Japanese. Shinto is never represented 

 by any figure, but ia worshipped as the "Unseen Spirit" which 

 pervades everything. Buddha, as is well known, is always repre- 

 sented by a male figure ; Shinto, the unrepresented, is supposed to 

 be a female. 



