This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...time, with some local silk men, seated on the tatamis, looking through the open sliding windows we breathed the cool, perfumed breeze of the night, while the moon was shining on the beautiful cherry blossoms. The moon rays illumined the miniature lake in the garden below where enormous red fishes jumped out of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...time, with some local silk men, seated on the tatamis, looking through the open sliding windows we breathed the cool, perfumed breeze of the night, while the moon was shining on the beautiful cherry blossoms. The moon rays illumined the miniature lake in the garden below where enormous red fishes jumped out of the water like silver. The servant girls brought us raw salmon, pickled turnips, extraordinary dishes, and plenty of sake. But we were looking at the scenery all the time. No wonder the Nippons are happy in their dreamland. A strange and sweet music came from behind, and, there, kneeling at the door, were geishas, without whom no entertainment is complete. II. The Silk Exchange. One of the unpleasant experiences of the silk exporter in Japan is to discover on reaching his office in the morning that the "jo ichi ban" No. 1 Filature, equal to Sinshiu Okaya, is quoted at the Bourse, ten yen or more above the closing price of the previous evening; next, his "banto," Japanese employee, will rush in: "Sir, Messrs. So and So and Messrs. An Other & Co. have received large orders from America, the Japanese firms Eire in the market (they are always) and the Silk Exchange is going up rapidly. This report is the same in every exporting house. If you have a fresh order or an old one which you were holding back in the hope of a decline, you will most of the time cover yourself at once, very glad if you do not pay the advance. Your neighbor thinks himself wiser, he buys twice as much as his orders amount to. The next man buys without orders at all, and some others place an order at the Silk Exchange, expecting a further advance. Very quickly prices jump higher and higher. You did well to cover yourself and you now regret that you did not...
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