Japan and the Japanese

834 JAPAN. A. D. 1COO 1G92.
monly made to Jews in Germany, is Tooxin bay bay? which, in
broken Chinese, signifies, Chinese, have yt nntkiny to truck?
" It may not be amiss to observe, that it is not an indifferent
matter to travellers in this country what day they set out on their
journey ;
for they must choose lor their departure a fortunate day,
for which purpose they make use of a particular table, printed in
all their road-books, which they say hath been observed to hold
true by a continued experience of many ages, and wherein are set
down all the unfortunate days of every month. However, the most
sensible of the Japanese have but little regard for this
superstitious
table, which if more credited
priests and monks.
by the common people, the mountain
" To give
the more authority to this table, they say that it was
invented by the astrologer Seimei, a man of great quality and very
eminent in his art. King Abino Tassima was his father, and a
fox his mother, to whom Abino Tassima was married upon the fol-
lowing occasion. lie once happened with a servant of his to be in
the tem;>le of Inari, who is the god and protector of the f