Samurai Trails a Chronicle of Wanderings On the Japanese High Road
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We bought a boxful for a few sen. In arriving at a selling price they must have valued their time in the manu- factiu-ing as a gratuitous contribution to the arts. Every once in a while 0-Owre-san and I had had our pleasure in drawing the long bow of our imagination concerning the architectural reason for a certain peculiar type of house. A recurring example is to be found in nearly every village. These buildings are unusually substantial and 160 SAMURAI TRAILS the windows are always heavily ba...rred and shut- tered. They give a suggestion of descent from the castles of feudal days. As I said, we had em- ployed our elaborate imagining over the myste- rious buildings, but our guesses had never brought us anywhere near to the truth. Hori explained that they are the houses of the pawn- brokers. Hori is the son of a samurai. (He has the right to wear, if he wishes, the fuU number of crests on his formal kimono.) The artists who made the old colour prints used to give to the eyes of the two-sworded samurai an expression of warlike ferocity.
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