A Japanese Bakery 



6 9 



A BAKERY IN JAPAN 



Old Japan had no bread or biscuits. Rice, beans, fish, eggs, and millet were and are the 

 chief articles of food. The Japanese knowledge of bread dates from their acquaintance with 

 the Portuguese, who first entered Japan in 1542. In 1890 there was a rage for foreign bread 

 in Tokyo, even among Jinrikisha men and coolies. Piles of loaves were seen at every little 

 cook-stall ; but the fashion subsided like a fever and ordinary Japanese victuals resumed their 

 wonted place. Biscuits such as we see in this view are a compromise between oriental and 

 •occidental cookery. They are of various kinds, made of rice or of wheat flour and baked over 

 a. charcoal fire. Copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. 



