Zigzagging in the Orient, 1921-22 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Zigzagging in the Orient, 1921-22Here and there a steel frame structure audaciously punctures the sky line, but as likely as not its next door neighbor is a Buddhist temple or a' Shinto shrine, continuing serenely as a going concern in its ancient location. The occasional European hotel or cafe cuts a lonely and incongruous figure in the midst of a wilderness of tea-houses where apparently 99 per cent of the population still squat on their haunches, eating rice concoctions with chop-sticks, precisely as their ancestors have done for ages.In Tokyo there is'a great department store which would do credit to any American city, yet the throngs that patronize it leave their clogs at the door and shuf¿e in on clean, noiseless sandals, just as they do when entering a temple, while the salespeople who wait on them add up purchases and compute change with the help Of an antiquated Chinese counting board. To see the crowds that pack this store one might imagine it had a monopoly of Tokyo's retail trade, but as a matter of fact the vast majority of the people of the city continue to buy at the little toy-like Shops which for centuries have lined its narrow streets.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.