Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 376
many features of the Japanese house are engrafted upon it, arepoints difficult to determine. The Ainos that I saw in the Ishikari valley, on the westcoast of Yezo, and from Shiraoi south on the east coast, allspoke Japanese, ate out of lacquer bowls, used chop-sticks,smoked small pipes, drank sake,… … Fig. 300. — Aino House, Yezo. the other hand, they retained their own language, their long,narrow dug-out; used the small bow, the poisoned arrow, andhad an arrow-release of their own; adhered to their ancestralforms of worship and their peculiar methods of design, and werequite as persistent in…
Architecture, Japanese · Japan -- Social life and customs
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