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CHAPTER XXIV. A GAME OF POLO. fashion of making bridal tours is not Japan- -*- ese. Many a lovely spot might serve for such a purpose in the everywhere beautiful Japan. The lake and mountains of Hakone'i the peerless scenery, trees, waterfalls, and tombs of Nikko, where sleeps the mighty Iye*yasu, the founder of the Tokugawa line ; Hakuzan in Kaga ; the spas of Atami, all these are spots which, if in Europe or America, would be thronged with bridal parties. But our princely couple went nowhere. " At home " for three days is the general rule with ordinary people. All their friends came to see them, and presents were showered upon the happy pair. The great Sho-gun sent Fujimaro a present of a flawless ball of pure rock-crystal five inches in di- ameter. The Higo daimio presented him with a splendid saddle with gilt flaps and a pair of steel stirrups inlaid with gold and silver and bronze, with the crest of the Echizen clan glittering in silver it. upon From his own father he received a jet-black horse brought from the province of Nambu, and an equine descendant of the Arab sire presented by the viceroy of India to the Japanese embassy to the pope in 1589. 900
A GAME OF POLO. Let us now notice how the outward form of a Japanese maiden assumes that of a Japanese matron. First, then, the maiden wears a high coiffure that always serves as a sacred symbol of her virginity. It is not easy to describe its form, but we think it very beautiful, and will regret the day when the Japanese musume wears her hair like her sisters across the ocean. The shimada, or virginal coiffure, however, is changed after marriage ; and Kiku, like the rest of her wedded friends, now wore the maru^- which is wound may6, or half-moon-shaped chignon, round an ivory, tortoise-shell, or coral-tipped bar, and is the distinguishing mark of a Japanese wife. So far, however, the transition from loveliness to ugliness has not been very startling; Kiku still looked pretty. The second process, however, robbed her of her eyebrows and left her bereft of those dark arches that had helped to make the radiant sun of her once maidenly beauty. With tweezers and razor the fell work, after many a wince, was done. With denuded brows and changed coiffure surely the Japanese god of fashion demands no more sacrifices at his shrine? Surely Kiku can still keep the treasures of a set of teeth that seem like a casket of pearls with borders of coral ? Not so. The custom of all good society from re- motest antiquity demands that the teeth of a wife must be dyed black. Kiku joyfully applied the galls and iron, and by patience and dint of polishing soon had a set of teeth as black as jet and as polished. Not strange to tell to a Japanese either,
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A GAME OF POLO.<br />
Let us now notice how the outward form of a<br />
Japanese maiden assumes that of a Japanese matron.<br />
First, then, the maiden wears a high coiffure<br />
that always serves as a sacred symbol of her virginity.<br />
It is not easy to describe its form, but we<br />
think it very beautiful, and will regret the day when<br />
the Japanese musume wears her hair like her sisters<br />
across the ocean. The shimada, or virginal coiffure,<br />
however, is changed after marriage ; and Kiku, like<br />
the rest of her wedded friends, now wore the maru^-<br />
which is wound<br />
may6, or half-moon-shaped chignon,<br />
round an ivory, tortoise-shell, or coral-tipped bar,<br />
and is the distinguishing mark of a Japanese wife.<br />
So far, however, the transition from loveliness to<br />
ugliness has not been very startling; Kiku still<br />
looked pretty. The second process, however, robbed<br />
her of her eyebrows and left her bereft of those dark<br />
arches that had helped to make the radiant sun of<br />
her once maidenly beauty. With tweezers and razor<br />
the fell work, after many a wince, was done. With<br />
denuded brows and changed coiffure surely the Japanese<br />
god of fashion demands no more sacrifices at his<br />
shrine? Surely Kiku can still keep<br />
the treasures<br />
of a set of teeth that seem like a casket of pearls<br />
with borders of coral ?<br />
Not so. The custom of all good society from re-<br />
motest antiquity demands that the teeth of a wife<br />
must be dyed black. Kiku joyfully applied the<br />
galls and iron, and by patience and dint of polishing<br />
soon had a set of teeth as black as jet and as<br />
polished. Not strange to tell to a Japanese either,