Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 486
y the way a work-man in Japan lives. He has one meal of rice per day,of the poorest quality, which costs him two sen eightrim. A sen is a fractional part of a penny, and a rima fractional part of a sen. For a mat to sleep on atnight he pays one sen fifty rim. Three sen he paysfor fish or the… … —**« Workers buried at the public expense is considered a deepdisgrace, forty sen is always put on one side for thepurchase of a coffin, seventy-five sen if the gentlemanwishes to be cremated, twenty sen for refreshmentsfor mourners, five rim for flowers, three sen for thefees of the two priests,…
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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