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. 1859 Excerpt: ...and arranged in rows of five, one behind the other, and all visible. On the hands and heads of all these were placed smaller idols. to the number of forty each, so that the array was the most extensive as well as the most brilliant of the kind that I had ever seen. We only visited one more, and that was smaller than ...
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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. 1859 Excerpt: ...and arranged in rows of five, one behind the other, and all visible. On the hands and heads of all these were placed smaller idols. to the number of forty each, so that the array was the most extensive as well as the most brilliant of the kind that I had ever seen. We only visited one more, and that was smaller than any of the others. The grand portico of the outer wall is denominated the gate of the two kings; and by this we entered. In the vast interior of the building, which is eightyfour feet high, appeared, on either side, a colossal figure, twenty-two feet in height, representing two kings sacred in mythological history. In an edifice adjoining this, was suspended an immense and elaborately-carved bell, measuring eighteen feet from the shank to the lip, and at one time, if not now, the largest in the world. This temple is celebrated for a tomb in which were buried the ears and noses of the Coreans who fell in the war carried on against them at the close of the sixteenth century, the said noses and ears having been pickled with salt on the Corean shores for the sake of their preservation, and so imported into Japan, and interred as war trophies. Miako is a city of great commerce, and the seat of large and ingenious manufactures, as well as being a great university and home of fashion. It is the great book-printing and publishing city of the empire, and the occasional resort of the most learned men. Silks and crapes are wove, and copper is refined there on a large scale. The imperial mint is there, and metallurgists' shops are numerous, exhibiting a great variety of gold and silver flowers, and rare works of the jeweller's art. The best and scarcest dyes, the most elaborate sculpture and engraving, all sorts of musical instruments, pictures, lacquered c...
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