53317 Faithful old Christian and children and grand children. 3 miles in
country from church at Ebtsu. 5 sons married, all Christians. Home in
background. Ebtsu, Hokkaido.
53318 Shinto Shrine near Methodist Church. Sapporo, Hokkaido.
53319 Methodist Church and parsonage. Sapporo, Hokkaido.
53388 Pillar of the invented pattern on left, in Yomeimon. Designed to
mar the perfection of the work and so ward off the jealousy of evil
spirits. Ieyasu Temple, Nikko.
53519 Cliffs of the first and second stone arches, Miogi Mountain trip.
(first arch at left)
53520 Second stone arch, Miogi Mountain trip. Bill Vinton and R.S.
Spencer on the 40 foot chain necessary in climbing up or down. Pinnacle at
left is side view of first arch seen in another picture.
53524 Storm God covered with spit ball prayers, in gate to monastery and
shrine foot of Miogi Mountain. Prayers on paper are chewed into spit balls
and thrown at image. If they hit and stick, it is a favorable omen. Hugh
straw sandals, big enough for the god are hung as offerings made by
pilgrims.
53557 Filling the watering cart. Tokyo city ordinancies require
householders to water the street in front of their own house a certain
number of times each day. Many water it in person with dippers and bucket
others hire men with such carts. Man had just dropped handle as I snapped.
53897 Garden gate and arch formed by two trees whose branches are trimmed
and trained. Ladies are members of deputation.
53898
53899 Family in poorest of slums, Tokyo, wife looking over rice before
cooking. (She had already found a heaping teaspoonful of white gravel, put
into increase weigh.)
55830 A place of worship where Buddhist pray, when children are desired.
The priest of this temple told the missionary their prayers were invariably
answered.
55831 Father and child doing the work of horse or ox.
55832 Common street scene.
55833 Children playing by the roadside.
55834 Missionary Hospital for tubercular patients, built with five
bedrooms and a sitting room much like the hand, each room representing a
finger, and the sun reaching three sides of each rooms.
55842 A rest house prepared by Mr. Vorhees on the roadside where people
come in from the sun and find free literature and a Bible. One Buddhist
priest reading the Bible in the rest house, gave his heart to Christ and is
now a preacher of the gospel.
55847 A bridge off which Christian youngmen were thrown into the river.
55848 The dispensary in connection with the Missionary Hospital.
55849 Hospital cottage of five rooms.
55850 Gathering mud for house building.
55851 A rest house prepared by Mr. Vorhees on the roadside where people
come in from the sun and find literature and a Bible. One Buddhist priest
reading the Bible in the rest house, gave his heart to Christ and is now a
preacher of the gospel.
55868 Heathen drug store? These bottles are all filled with snakes. Just
below the bottles is the place where the man breeds them. There were
perhaps hundreds, young and old. After they are of considerable size, they
are put into bottles filled with alcohol. The alcohol is poured off and
sold for various ailments, and the snakes powdered up and sold for other
ailments.
55869 Japanese woman worshipping at ancestral temple.
55876 A very suitable advertisement for a saloon, thus on the roof of a
saloon, a man with a serpent after him.
55877 Heathen drug store? These bottles are all filled with snakes.
Below the bottles is the place where the man breeds them. There were
perhaps hundreds, young and old. When of considerable size, they are
bottled in alcohol. The alcohol is poured off and medicine sold for
various ailments. The snakes powdered and sold for various other ailments.