CHAP. XVI.] 
JAPANESE BEDROOM. 
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if it is in the upper story, on a small balcony. Immediately 
outside there is always a vessel filled with water and a scoop. 
Generally on one side of the room there is a wall-press, in which 
the bed-clothes are kept. These, the only household articles in 
the room, consist of a thick mat, which is spread on the floor, 
a round cushion for the head, or instead of it a wooden support, 
stuffed on the upper side, for the neck during sleep, and a thick 
stuffed night-shirt which serves as covering. 
JAPANESE BEDROOM. 
As soon as one comes in the female attendants distribute four- 
cornered cushions for sitting on, which are placed on the floor 
round a wooden box, on one corner of which stands a little 
brazier, on the other a high clay vessel of uniform breadth, with 
water in the bottom, which serves as a spittoon and tobacco-ash 
cup. At the same time tea is brought in anew, in the small cups 
previously described, with saucers, not of porcelain, but of metal. 
Pipes are lighted, and a lively conversation commences. Along 
