ABSTRACT
The streets of Tokyo are a never-failing source of amusement. At night the business streets are more than ever full; summer and winter, the lower classes seem to do all their shopping after dark. For half the day the schools claim a large proportion of the children in Tokyo and elsewhere, but for the poorest even the pittance needed for books and materials is more than they can afford, and their schooling is very brief. There are an immense number of second-hand shops in Tokyo, some dealing only in more or less artistic wares–” curios,” as the phrase is–and others selling all manner of odds and ends of clothing; household goods, broken or not; even straw and old baskets and boxes, which are broken up and used for fuel. Ekoin, where the annual wrestling matches are held, owes its origin to one of the worst fires Tokyo has ever known.
