Identifier: childlifeinjapan01ayrt (find matches)
Title: Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed
Subjects: Children Fairy tales
Publisher: Boston and New York, D.C. Heath & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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He makes you evenimagine he has four arms, so cleverly can he twistround his arm and gracefully fan what is in realitythe back of his head. The tops the lads are playing with in this pic-ture ^ are not quite the same shape as our tops,but they spin very well. Some men are so cleverat making spinning-tops run along strings, throw-ing them up into the air and catching them witha tobacco-pipe, that they earn a living by exhibit-ing their skill. Some of the tops are formed of short pieces ofbamboo with a wooden peg put through them,and the hole cut in the side makes them havea fine hum as the air rushes in whilst theyspin. The boys in the next large picture (p. 9) mustbe playing with the puppies of a large dog, tojudge from their big paws. There are a greatmany large dogs in the streets of Tokio; someare very tame, and will let children comb theirhair and ornament them and pull them about.These dogs do not wear collars, as do our petdogs, but a wooden label bearing the owners * Sc^ p^e 7.
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Playing with Doggy. lo Child-Life in Japan. name Is hung round their necks. Other bigdogs are almost wild. Half-a-dozen of these dogs will lie in one place,stretched drowsily on the grassy city walls underthe trees, during the daytime. Towards eveningthey rouse themselves and run off to yards anarubbish-heaps to pick up what they can. Theywill eat fish, but two or three dogs soon get toknow where the meat-eating Englishmen live.They come trotting in regularly with a business-like air to search among the days refuse forbones. Should any interloping dog try to estab-lish a right to share the feast he can only gainhis footing after a victorious battle. All thesedogs are very wolfish-looking, with straight hair^which is usually white or tan-colored. Thereare other pet dogs kept in houses. These looksomething like spaniels. They are small, withtheir black noses so much turned up that itseems as if, when they were puppies, they hadtumbled down and broken the bridge of theirnose. They are of

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