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28 HONDA THE SAMURAI. flight, the design easily made visible through the thin boards, and making pretty effects of light and shade, complete the partition between the rooms. The cats of the country are not only bobtailed, but so lazy that the rats multiply and run riot over the ceilings and make a playground of the partition tops. To keep them from nibbling and spoiling this beau- tiful, carved woodwork, the carpenter has kindly made a little square aperture at the end of each partition top, so that they may pass through conveniently and not spoil the fine art of the carver. The rats fear nothing but the weasel. The kitchen is called dai-dokoro, or " great place," which sufficiently indicates that even Japanese women suspect that the seat of a man's affection is in his stomach. The chief piece of kitchen furni- ture is the furnace, made of earth or plaster, with two cavities, one for rice-boiler and one for tea- kettle. The fuel is of split wood, which is cheap in Japan. The Japanese do everything upside down, as we may think, for the blade of the axe for split- to the handle. As we ting wood is set at right angles look at the cooked rice we find it snow-white and each grain separate. There is no burning, sogginess, or hardness. Rice-cooking is a triumph of high art. In lieu of a bellows an artifical pair of lungs to blow the fire the maid uses nature's own, and a bamboo tube carries the oxygen from the mouth to the fire. In addition there are iron and brass cook- ing-pots with wooden covers. Charcoal is used for broiling, when the birds, fish, or bean-curd are spitted
A JAPANESE HOVE. 29 or laid on gridirons. A thick cutting-board and flatsided knife to cut vegetables, another dirk-like one to slice raw fish, and an edgeless sheet of brass for bean-curd are among the necessary implements. A rasp, or unperforated piece of iron, is kept for grating purposes. Tubs, pails of all sizes, and dippers are numerous and made wholly of bamboo or of wood. Tinware is unheard of, except as a curiosity imported by the Dutch and called by the foreign word briki (instead of the New Jersey word " blickie," for the Japanese have no I in their alphabet). Mortars of wood and stone and sieves and baskets are set in their places. The domestic hand-mill is used es- pecially to grind miso, or bean preparation. No such thing as fork (niku-sashi, " meat-sticker ") or spoon is known to the Japanese cook. She digs out the boiled rice with a flat paddle or a scoop, only slightly countersunk. Pieces of flat bamboo, with the end slightly indented like a spoon and lacquered in the cavity are called saji, and look like something between a gravy-ladle and a spoon proper. As the native of Japan neither defiles his tea with milk nor spoils its flavor with sugar, his nation even in this land of tea has lived without the knowledge of a tea- spoon or even the need of it. Of furniture, as has been said, there is in a Japanese house almost none. The casual visitor sees no sofa, chairs, tables, stoves, curtains, or hat-rack. In the parlor, or room for receiving guests, are seen in the tokonoma, or raised space, a handsome sword-rack, flower vases, bronzes, or lacquered ware.
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A JAPANESE HOVE. 29<br />
or laid on gridirons. A thick cutting-board and flatsided<br />
knife to cut vegetables, another dirk-like one<br />
to slice raw fish, and an edgeless sheet of brass for<br />
bean-curd are among the necessary implements. A<br />
rasp, or unperforated piece of iron, is kept for grating<br />
purposes. Tubs, pails of all sizes, and dippers are<br />
numerous and made wholly of bamboo or of wood.<br />
Tinware is unheard of, except as a curiosity imported<br />
by the Dutch and called by the foreign word<br />
briki (instead of the New Jersey word " blickie," for<br />
the Japanese have no I in their alphabet). Mortars<br />
of wood and stone and sieves and baskets are set in<br />
their places. The domestic hand-mill is used es-<br />
pecially to grind miso, or bean preparation.<br />
No such<br />
thing as fork (niku-sashi, " meat-sticker ") or spoon<br />
is known to the Japanese cook. She digs out the<br />
boiled rice with a flat paddle or a scoop, only slightly<br />
countersunk. Pieces of flat bamboo, with the end<br />
slightly indented like a spoon and lacquered in the<br />
cavity are called saji, and look like something between<br />
a gravy-ladle and a spoon proper. As the<br />
native of Japan neither defiles his tea with milk nor<br />
spoils its flavor with sugar, his nation even in this<br />
land of tea has lived without the knowledge of a tea-<br />
spoon or even the need of it.<br />
Of furniture, as has been said, there is in a Japanese<br />
house almost none. The casual visitor sees<br />
no sofa, chairs, tables, stoves, curtains, or hat-rack.<br />
In the parlor, or room for receiving guests, are<br />
seen in the tokonoma, or raised space, a handsome<br />
sword-rack, flower vases, bronzes, or lacquered ware.