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298 HONDA THE SAMUKAL cups are dipped and rinsed before each drinking. Previous to going into the festal room where the supper is served, the friends all go out to look at the grand array of fish, fowl, flesh, vegetables, pastry, and all the good things which are to be eaten. The cook has done his best for the occasion, and artists have assisted the cook ; for all these deli- cacies and these solid foods are arranged in a most artistic manner to represent the whole landscape of Japan. Here are edible mountains, rocks, and precipices ; there are rivers of liquid, and semi-solids of jelly, and here are bays and promontories and shores ; and all these pictures of geography are represented in things which are good to eat. Here are also fountains and cascades, and trees and plants, and vegetables arranged so as to resemble a garden. short, a most wonderful picture has been created, which is to be destroyed for the sake of eating. Husband and wife now took their seats again with the whole company in the main hall and joined in the supper, during which apparently innumerable courses were served. Neither salads, ices, nor black cake appeared, but the bill-of-fare contained many choice items best appreciated in Japan. Let us enumerate a few. There were salmon from Hako- date", tea from Uji, young rice from Higo, pheasants' eggs, fried cuttle-fish, tai, Tcoi, maguro, and many other sorts of toothsome fish. There were sea-weed of various sorts and from many coasts, bean-curd, many kinds of fish-soups, condiments of various flavors, eggs in every style, and shell-fish of every In
THE WEDDING OF A PRINCESS. 299 shape. A maguro-fish, thinly sliced, but perfectly raw, was one of the features of the feast. Sweet- meats, candies of the sort known to the Japanese con- fectioners, and castira (castile) cake, loquats, oranges, and many sorts of fruit crowned the courses. As usual the near friends, Professor Koba, Mr. Rai, Doctor Sano, and Honda Jiro, all of whom were present at the wedding, got off by themselves before the end of the evening and had a pleasant chat. Mr. Rai mentioned that Mr. Townsend Harris, the American consul-general, who had been living quietly at Shimoda, was pressing his demand to be allowed to come to Yedo and deliver the President's letter. "No amount of threats, cunning, offers of reward or accommodation have been able to move him," said Mr. Rai. " He claims that it would be an insult to the President to deliver the letter anywhere but at Yedo, the seat of the government, or by any other method than in person." " Well," said Professor Koba, " in spite of all arguments and precedents against a foreigner's enter- ing Yedo, the bakufu must give way, and Mr. Harris will get into the camp city. Once there, he will wonder why the Sho-gun calls himself the Tycoon, and has no power in foreign affairs without consult- ing the Mikado and Imperial Court." " Then he will want to go to the very capital itself," said Mr. Rai. " Yes, that he will ; and the throne and camp will be at odds. The bakufu must choose its ablest man for this time of national danger."
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THE WEDDING OF A PRINCESS. 299<br />
shape. A maguro-fish, thinly sliced, but perfectly<br />
raw, was one of the features of the feast. Sweet-<br />
meats, candies of the sort known to the Japanese con-<br />
fectioners, and castira (castile) cake, loquats, oranges,<br />
and many sorts of fruit crowned the courses.<br />
As usual the near friends, Professor Koba, Mr.<br />
Rai, Doctor Sano, and Honda Jiro, all of whom were<br />
present at the wedding, got off by themselves before<br />
the end of the evening and had a pleasant chat.<br />
Mr. Rai mentioned that Mr. Townsend Harris, the<br />
American consul-general, who had been living quietly<br />
at Shimoda, was pressing his demand to be<br />
allowed to come to Yedo and deliver the President's<br />
letter.<br />
"No amount of threats, cunning, offers of reward<br />
or accommodation have been able to move him," said<br />
Mr. Rai.<br />
" He claims that it would be an insult to<br />
the President to deliver the letter anywhere but at<br />
Yedo, the seat of the government, or by any other<br />
method than in person."<br />
" Well," said Professor Koba, " in spite of all<br />
arguments and precedents against a foreigner's enter-<br />
ing Yedo, the bakufu must give way, and Mr. Harris<br />
will get into the camp city. Once there, he will<br />
wonder why the Sho-gun calls himself the Tycoon,<br />
and has no power in foreign affairs without consult-<br />
ing the Mikado and Imperial Court."<br />
" Then he will want to go to the very capital<br />
itself," said Mr. Rai.<br />
" Yes, that he will ;<br />
and the throne and camp will<br />
be at odds. The bakufu must choose its ablest man<br />
for this time of national danger."