ABSTRACT
The ancient mirror was made of copper, silver or iron and rarely of enamel or stone. A mirror with bells is sometimes found in an ancient grave, and it seems to have been original in Japan. The old caves of Yoshimi are horizontal and they have each a square entrance, about 3’x4’, without a door, though a stone slab about 2” thick seems to have been used in a few caves. A kind of phosphorous moss covers some of the caves and it is specially protected by the Government. Near the caves there is a cave-hotel built by an old man, Minekichi Takahashi. The Buddhist Cave of Ofuna is situated at 15 cho, or about one English mile, from Ofuna Station, near Kamakura. Most large temples in Japan have a temple-bell for tolling the time day and night. In the city of Okayama, Kan Sazan says, there lived a paper-mounter, Kokichi by name.
