ABSTRACT
A typical Japanese house is oblong, and more often one story high than two. Occasionally a storehouse is turned into a dwelling—one of those kura or go-downs, with immensely thick, white plastered walls, which are so striking a feature of all Japanese cities. Raising flowers is no part of the duty of a Japanese garden; a tree there should be, a stone lantern and some rocks, a little lake, a little hill; and the arrangement of it all has an artistic symbolism which everybody understands. Uchimura, in “Japan and the Japanese,” cites Yozan, lord of Yonezawa, as an example of right feeling. Many things are possible to a Japanese woman, because her code has taught her to regard marriage less as a means of personal happiness than as a duty. For in spite of all difficulties and drawbacks, in many a Japanese household there is peace and happiness, and a deep, quiet affection.
