This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... parks surrounded the temples and mortuary shrines of the Tokugawa Shoguns. At Shiba the temples are finer and more numerous. Ueno is the more favoured by Nature, the more famous in history, and is richer in colour both in the temples and in its blossoming cherry orchards. It was at Ueno that the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... parks surrounded the temples and mortuary shrines of the Tokugawa Shoguns. At Shiba the temples are finer and more numerous. Ueno is the more favoured by Nature, the more famous in history, and is richer in colour both in the temples and in its blossoming cherry orchards. It was at Ueno that the forces of the Shogun made their last stand against the Southern Daimios who had revolted to restore the temporal power of the Mikado. Some of the most glorious temples were burnt, and the temple palisades are to this day riddled with bullets. They were fighting for a lost cause. The Shogun himself had no heart for the struggle, but they fought with the chivalrous devotion of Japanese gentlemen. And romance is all on their side; it is kept alive not a little by the Buddhist priests, for Buddhism was under the special protection of the Shogun, perhaps because the Mikado was the official head of Shinto. Every year at Shiba arid Nikko, the headquarters of Buddhism in Japan, the festival of the Toshogu, the deified founder of the Tokugawa, is kept up with great splendour by the Buddhist hierarchy, the sacred image being carried in the centre of a gorgeous procession in a vast scarlet and gold mekura on the backs of scores of coolies. This is the Carnival of Japan. I do not propose to describe at length the exquisite beauties, the architectural glories of Ueno and Shiba. Exhibitions are held in the Ueno park --the most famous spot for cherry-blossom in all Japan. It has also the finest lotus lake--an exact copy of Lake Biwa near Kyoto--with an island in its centre, surmounted by a picturesque temple. Here, in August, the lotus is so luxuriant that the water is entirely concealed by its broad leaves and royal crowns of white or rose-coloured blossoms....
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