574 APPENDIX. Yatuga-oka, in Kai. At the boundary between this province and that of Suruga, it separates into two branches : the western, called the Ooygawa, divides Suruga from Tootomi, and fills into the sea a short distance from Iro ; the eastern brunch, named Foosi-no-gawa, runs at the base of Mount Foosi-no-yam.-i, and enters the bay of Taga. The sources of the Aragawa are at the lofty mountain of Fosio-daken, situated between the provinces of KootMikt-h and Musitsi. It flows through the latter, and soon separates into two branches ; the western, receiving the name of Todagawa, falls into the gulf of Jedo, to the eastward of the city of that name, which is watered by brandies and canals from the Todugawa. Upon one of these canals is the celebrated Nipon-bos, or bridge of Japan, from whence distances are com puted throughout the empire. The other branch of the Aragawa falls into the great lake Tukgawa, formed in Kootsukeh province by the three great rivers, Takasiua, Atsuma and Kawagawa. It divides Musasi from Koo tsukeh and Simosa, and falls by one branch into the gulf of Jedo, and by the other into the great lake Kasmiga-oora, whose waters are discharged, by the large issue called Saragawa, into the Eastern Ocean. This lake, situated in the province of Fitats, is fed by a number of considerable streams flowing from the mountains of Moots, Simotsukeh and Fitats. The Ookumigawaandthe Figanipawa are two large mountain streams ; they discharge themselves into the Eastern Ocean. The source of the Kosabngawa is in the province of Si- 11:1110. Its course is northerly, entering Yetsingo, where it takes the name of Finegawa, and falling into the sea of Japan, near the city of Ituwogawa. In Sinano it detaches a branch on its right, the Sai'gawa, which flows to the north- east, and unihs itself to the Sinanogawa. This large stream originates in the Akiyama mountain, in the province of Sinano ; it enters the Yetsingo, where it discharges itself by three arms into the estuary of Niegata, which communicates with the sea of Japan. The Ikogawa rises on Mount Sanotooki, on the frontier of Sinano and Moots ; it traverses a part of the latter, where it receives the Dn taint on the left, and on the right the waters of the salt lake Inaba. It enters Yetsingo, where it takes the name of Tsugawa, and falls by one of its branches into the estuary of Niegata, and by the easternmost into that of Fukusimagata. The largest river in the province of I)ewa is the Mo- gaiui, called at its embouchure the S.ikadagawa. It is formed by several large streams, which flow from the snowy mountains of Moots, and it falls into the sea of Japan. The empire is distributed into eight grand divisions or countries, denomi- nated Do, or "ways," namely, Gokynay,Tokaydo, Tosando, Foo-koo-ro-koodo, S.in-in-do, S.in-yo-do, Nan-kay-do, and S,iy-kay-do. These are subdivided into sixty-eight kokfs, or prosinces, which again consist of six hundred and twenty-two koris, or districts. I. Gokynay consists of five provinces, which compose the peculiar state or demesne of the emperor ; they are as follows : 1. Yamasiro (eight districts); principal cities, Kio, or Miako, the resi- dence of the Duiri, Nizio and Yodo ; productions, damasks, satins, taffetas,
KLAPROTIl'S ACCOUNT OF JAPAN. 575 and other silk fabrics of every kind, lackered articles, caps, kesas, or scarfs for the Buddhist priests, screens, fans, pins, bow-strings, white paint, tea- boxes, images of Buddhist divinities, porcelain and earthen ware, melons, tender sprouts of the bamboo for eating, dry ginger, stones for grinding ink, tea, grindstones, dolls, fish. 2. Yamato (fifteen districts) ; principal cities, Kori-yarua, Toka-tori, Kara ; productions, saki, or Japanese wine, excellent ink, parasols, pottery -vessels, cotton, deer, lacker, paper (plain and varnished), flour of the katsoora root, tobacco, melons, medical herbs, edible roots. '6. Kawatsi (fifteen districts) ; city Sayansa ; productions, fruit, bar- relled figs, sugar of- rice, perfumes^ cucumbers, tree-cotton, diamonds, mutri- caria, bridles, bells for hawks used for hunting, raisins, black yams, coals, edible roots of the lotus. 4. Idzumi (three districts) ; city, Kisi-no-wata ; productions, gold-flowered gauzes, taffetas, brass guns, white paint, shoes, vinegar, umbrellas, knives, melons, gold-fish, rock spari, soles, paper, salt, summer hats, water- jars, tobacco, combs, sieves. 5. Sets (thirteen dis tricts) ; cities, Osaka, one of the chief commercial emporia in the empire, Taka-tsuki, Ayaka-saki ; productions, raw cotton (both tree and herbaceous), cotton fabrics, salt-water fish, salted fish, grain, medicinal plants, wood for building, oil for burning, saki, soy, vinegar, umbrellas for the rain andthe sun, tiles, melons, turnips, a sort of mustard of which the tender sprouts are eaten (kuburanu). iron kettles, gingerbread. II. Tokaydo, or eastern sea-way, consists of fifteen provinces ; namely : 1. Iga (four districts); capital, Wooye-no. 2. Izeh (fifteen districts)- cities, Koowana, Kameyama, Tsu, Mats-saka, Kambeh, Kwe, Nagasima, Yoda, the Daysingu temples ; productions, raw cotton (tree and herbaceous), taffetas, sea-crabs (highly-prized), the best pearls in Japan, a great quantity of fish and shell-fish, mosses, large radishes, daucus Indica, acorns (lolsi nomi, barrelled figs, excellent tea, mercury (crude and sublimed), white paint, whalebone, almanacs, sugar of rice, matches, flutes, straw shoes. 3. Siaia (two districts); capital, Tuba ; productions, pearls, nearly as fine as those of Ize'i. -1. Owari (eight districts); cities, Nakoya, Inogama ; productions, pearls, loadstones, edible roots, gourds. >. M.kawa (eight dis tricts); cities, Yosida, Nisiwo, Kariya, Tawara, Oka-saki, Koromo ; pro ductions, talc, anchors, arrow-heads, stones for playing drafts and chess, paper, fish, shell-fish, amongst which is the cancer Bernhardns. 6. Tutu- mi (fourteen districts) ; cities, Kakegawa, Yakosuka, Famamats ; produe tions, potatoes, oranges of different sorts, eels and other fish, sugar of rice, peas, light summer cloths, made of the katsoora plant, other cloths, edible shoots of the bamboo, birds of prey for the chase, arrow-heads. 7. Suruga (seven districts) ; cities, Foo-tsiu, Tanaka ; productions., paper, bamboo utensils, melons, tea, sweet oranges, rock spari and other sea-fish, moss from Mount Foosi-no-yama. 8. Idsu (three dstricts); capital, Simoda ; productions, saki or Japanese wine (from Yekawa), paper, astrological almanacs from the great temple of the Sintos at Misima, ginger. 9. Kay (four districts); capital, Footsiu ; productions,
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