Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 372
356 JAPAN DAY BY DAY the lowest savages have this simple method of releasing the arrow and if the higher races have a more complex method.1 I also learned that the Ainus shoot arrows at the feet of a man running away. In the preparation of flax in Suo an enormous cylinder of wood, made like a… … and I was invited to at¬ tend. As he died of cholera no public funeral was allowed at the time, and now, after three months, the obsequies are held. I went early with Takenaka to the cemetery beyond Uyeno, and while waiting for the procession, sketched a few 1 I have since ascertained that the low…
Japan -- Description and travel · Japan -- Social life and customs
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