LETTER XLIV.

Fine Weather—Cremation in Japan—The Governor of 325–328 Tôkiyô—An Awkward Question—An Insignificant Building—Economy in Funeral Expenses—Simplicity of the Cremation Process—The Last of Japan

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE The Yomei Gate, Shrines of Nikkô Frontispiece Fujisan 2 Travelling Restaurant 5 Japanese Man-Cart 9 A Lake Biwa Tea-House 20 Stone Lanterns 28 A Kuruma 35 Road-Side Tea-House 38 Sir Harry’s Messenger 42 Kanaya’s House 52 Japanese Pack-Horse 63 Attendant at Tea-House 64 Summer and Winter Costume 82 Buddhist Priests 112 Street and Canal 117 The Flowing Invocation 130 The Belle of Kaminoyama 135 Torii 149 Daikoku, the God of Wealth 154 Myself in a Straw Rain-Cloak 176 A Lady’s Mirror 201 Akita Farm-House 204 Aino Store-House at Horobets 223 Aino Lodges. (From a Japanese Sketch) 224 Aino Houses 234 Ainos at Home. (From a Japanese Sketch) 235 Aino Millet-Mill and Pestle 238 Aino Store-House 247 Ainos of Yezo 256 An Aino Patriarch 258 Tattooed Female Hand 260 Aino Gods 266 Plan of an Aino House 267 Weaver’s Shuttle 270 A Hiogo Buddha 272 The Rokkukado 288 My Kuruma-Runner 305 Temple Gateway at Isshinden 311 Entrance to Shrine of Seventh Shôgun, Shiba, Tôkiyô 323 Fujisan, from a Village on the Tokaido 326