ABSTRACT
The old post-road north, Oshiu Kaido, is kept in very good condition, although the railroad follows it quite closely most of the way and takes most of the long-distance traffic. Bowls–the small covered bowls of plain brown or black lacquer in which the Japanese serve their soup–are rather a specialty of Fukushima, an important town about fifty miles south of Sendai. Beyond Sendai, both road and railroad follow the Kitamigawa, climb the hills in which it rises, and so make their way by Morioka and the great moors to Aomori, on the northern strait. The Uyesugi were not prompt enough in making submission to him, and as a punishment were deprived of Echigo; but Aidzu, which they received instead, was not a bad substitute. Wakamatsu, the castle-town of Aidzu, lies in a beautiful plain twenty to thirty miles long and half as broad, famed throughout the country for its loveliness and fertility.
