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891 [[?]] you wish to buy silks heavy with embroidery in gold and silver, beautiful bronzes and carved ivories, curios of any sort or simple, everyday Japanese household goods of any sort, you can find them in these ships along the way. This is one of the main streets in the eastern part of town. The screens overhead are of cotton cloth, string on wires; they are the private property of the shopkeepers-merely an expansion of the idea of an awning before the shop-front. You notice, of course, that there are no sidewalks; there are no horses. Those two-wheeled jinrikishas, drawn by coolies, answer the purpose of carriages and cabs, Those commonplace cloth umbrellas are steadily taking the place of the more picturesque flat shades of bamboo and paper.There is a wide variety just at present in the costumes of Japanese men; some go bareheaded, some wear flat, mushroom-shaped confections of plaited straw, some have adopted western hats. The women are conservative and cling more generally to their national dress.

These street lamps make the place gay in the evening. For many years kerosene oil has been largely used. Now Kyoto here has a fine electric plant, power for the dynamos being obtained by the flow of water from Lake Biwa through a canal down into the [[Thiano??]] Sea. Kyoto is well abreast of Europe in this respect.

If you were to enter these shops you would find everybody treading, shoeless, on matted floors. Most shopkeepers use the soroban, a wire frame strung with sliding beads, to assist them in reckoning. 

(See Scidmore's "Jinrikisha Days in Japan," Davidson's "Present Day Japan," etc.)

From Notes of Travel, No. 9, copyright, 1904 by   Underwood & Underwood

Midsummer traffic on a busy street in Kyoto, Japan.
Circulation de la mi-été dans une rue affairée á Kioto. Japan.
Berfehr im Gommer auf einer lebhaftem Gtafe in Khoto, Japan.
Tráfico en el medio del verano en una calle activia de Kioto, Japon.
Midsommartrafik å liflig gata i Kioto, Japan.
KHOTOДIOДHaЯ yлице Bа KioTE, лTTOM'b, Kitoto, ЯпонIЯ.