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CHAPTER XV.
FROM KAMAKUBA TO YEDO.
be said to have
had two kio, or capitals, one in the east and
SINCE the year 1192 Japan may
one in the west. In the western city of Kyoto were
the emperor and the throne ;
in the eastern city the
general and the camp. In one were honor and dignity
; in the other, sword and purse. The empire
was divided into East and West, the division line
being at the barrier gate of Ze'ze', a little town at
the foot of Lake Biwa.
The eastern cities were, successively, Kamakura,
Odawara, and Yedo. Yet none of these head-quarters
of government on the Gulf of Yedo was ever
called To-Kio, or eastern capital, but only To-do,
or eastern city.
Our two pedestrians, setting out from Kamakura
to Yedo, made a two days' trip of it, because time
was of no special value, and besides they wanted
to enjoy the scenery. Clocks and watches had not
yet come into fashion, and the common people had
no familiar word for any period less than an hour.
At noon of the first
day they lunched at a village
on the hill from which they could overlook
many leagues of blue sea.
" This is the fir-tree under which our great painter
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