ABSTRACT
A bird's eye view of a large city in Japan presents an appearance quite unlike that presented by any large assemblage of buildings at home. A view of Kioto as seen from some high point, is remarkably beautiful and varied, as the houses creep oat between the hills that hem it in. In Nagasaki the houses literally rise in tiers from the water's edge to the hills immediately back, there to become blended with the city of the dead which caps their summits. In Tokio one may find streets lined with a continuous row of the cheapest shelters; and here dwell the poorest people. Though squalid and dirty as such places appear to the Japanese, they are immaculate in comparison with the unutterable filth and misery of similar quarters in nearly all the great cities of Christendom. The frame-work of a building is often revealed in the room in a way that would delight the heart of an Eastlake.
