The Chrysanthemum Show 30

Fishsave 34

The Filial Girl 37

The Parsley Queen 38

The Two Daughters 40

Second Sight 44

Games 46

The Games and Sports of Japanese
Children, by William Elliot Griffis 50

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Lion of Korea _Frontispiece_

PAGE
A Ride on a Bamboo Rail 1

A Game of Snowball 3

Boys' Concert--Flute, Drum, and Song 5

Lion Play 6

Ironclad Top Game 7

Playing with Doggy 9

Heron-Legs, or Stilts 11

The Young Wrestlers 13

Playing with the Turtle 15

Presenting the Tide-Jewels to Hachiman 18

"Bronze fishes sitting on their throats" 19

The Treasure-Ship 23

Girls' Ball and Counting Game 26

Firemen's Gymnastics 28

Street Tumblers 29

Eating Stand for the Children 31

Fishsave riding the Dolphin 35

Bowing before her Mother's Mirror 37

Imitating the Procession 39

The Two White Birds 41

Eye-Hiding, or Blindman's Buff 47

Stilts and Clog-Throwing 48

Playing at Batter-Cakes 49

Hoisting the Rice-Beer Keg 51

Getting ready to raise the Big Humming Kite 60

Daruma, the Snow-Image 62

INTRODUCTION

In almost every home are Japanese fans, in our shops Japanese dolls and
balls and other knick-knacks, on our writing-tables bronze crabs or
lacquered pen-tray with outlined on it the extinct volcano [Fuji San][1]
that is the most striking mountain seen from the capital of Japan. At
many places of amusement Japanese houses of real size have been
exhibited, and the jargon of fashion for "Japanese Art" even reaches our
children's ears.

[1] _Fuji San_, or Fuji no Yama, the highest mountain in the Japanese
archipelago, is in the province of Suruga, s