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Just such vehicles and people you see every day on the Yokohama streets.  The Daijingu temple is up on a high bluff, above the business districts which are near the shore and above the larger part of the native residence-quarter.

These light, two wheeled jinrikishas, drawn by energetic coolies, take the place of the carriages and cabs of western lands.  If you were to hire one for a short distance you would be charged at the rate of perhaps twenty sen (10 cts.) per ri (2 1/2 miles, the standard of distance-measurement) or 75 cts. per day.  The jinrikisha men are usually strong willing fellows who come from country villages to earn a living in town.  Their kimonos and short trousers are of cotton stuff in quiet, subdued colors.  The women, while young, wear brighter colors, and children the brightest of all.  The many kimonos you see are cut according to a pattern practically unvarying, but the nicer ones are of silk and the women's broad sashes, tied in big, flat bows behind are their special pride and delight.

The piazzas in front of those tiled-roofed houses are exactly three feet wide -- that is the universal custom in Japanese houses.  The shoji or sliding window screens are of bamboo covered with paper, which allows a soft, subdued light to pass through even when the screens are in place.

The temple where the prosperous looking dames go to worship contains a shrine of the Sun Goddess much revered by believers in the Shinto faith.  The religion cultivated there is a somewhat vague mixture of nature-worship and ancestor worship.  Worshippers may go to the temples at any time to pray and make offerings -- but certain days of the month call for special ceremonies performed by the priests and large festivals occur at longer, stated intervals.

(See Scidmore's "Jinrikisha Days in Japan"; Chamerlain's "Things Japanese," etc.)
From Notes of Travel, No. 8, copyright, 1904, by Underwood and Underwood
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[[English]] Japanese Riding to Daijingu Temple, Yokohama, Japan.
[[French]] Des Japonais Allant en Voiture au Temple Daijingu, Yokohama, Japan.
[[German]] Japanese nach dem Daijingu Tempel fahrend, Yokohama, Japan.
[[Spanish]] Japoneses Cabalgando al Templo Daijingu, Yokohama, Japon.
[[Swedish]] Japaneser farande till Daijingu templet, Yokohama, Japan.
[[Russian]] unknown

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Unable to transcribe the Russian description of the picture.