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CHAPTER XXII. A JOURNEY THROUGH A PRISON. NEW YEAR'S ceremonies and rejoicings were fully over before Mr. Rai, having awaited various tedious delays, received the welcome com- mission to visit Honda Jiro in prison, and to bear to him the conditional order for r.elease. As politi- cal matters quieted down after the American fleet had left, there was no great opposition to the re- quest of the daimio of Echizen. The condition imposed was that Honda Jiro, after release from Yedo prison, should be kept in house confinement in Yedo, and then reenter the service of his lord. This punishment was a grade or two below that of shutting up the gates of a householder and confin- ing him to his own house, which was considered a dreadful disgrace. In a word, Honda Jiro was to be let off easily. Accordingly, armed with the written permission of the mayor, or governor, of the city, Mr. Rai made his way into the oldest and most densely populated part of Yedo, where Pack-horse Street and the prison entrance were. Having never been before in the neighborhood, he was as interested as a sight-seer in studying the dimensions and appearance of the great " man-house," or jail, the various buildings and 276
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CHAPTER XXII.<br />
A JOURNEY THROUGH A PRISON.<br />
NEW YEAR'S ceremonies and rejoicings were<br />
fully over before Mr. Rai, having awaited<br />
various tedious delays, received the welcome com-<br />
mission to visit Honda Jiro in prison, and to bear<br />
to him the conditional order for r.elease. As politi-<br />
cal matters quieted down after the American fleet<br />
had left, there was no great opposition to the re-<br />
quest of the daimio of Echizen. The condition<br />
imposed was that Honda Jiro, after release from<br />
Yedo prison, should be kept in house confinement<br />
in Yedo, and then reenter the service of his lord.<br />
This punishment was a grade or two below that of<br />
shutting up the gates<br />
of a householder and confin-<br />
ing him to his own house, which was considered a<br />
dreadful disgrace. In a word, Honda Jiro was to<br />
be let off easily.<br />
Accordingly, armed with the written permission<br />
of the mayor, or governor, of the city, Mr. Rai<br />
made his way into the oldest and most densely populated<br />
part of Yedo, where Pack-horse Street and the<br />
prison entrance were. Having never been before in<br />
the neighborhood, he was as interested as a sight-seer<br />
in studying the dimensions and appearance of the<br />
great " man-house," or jail, the various buildings and<br />
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