  os/219/woman-carrying-charcoal > i write the truth as i see it, and if my accounts conflict with those of tourists who write of the tokaido and nakasendo, of lake biwa and hakone, it does not follow that either is inaccurate. but truly this is a new japan to me, of which no books have given me any idea, and it is not fairyland. > the men may be said to wear nothing. few of the women wear anything but a short petticoat wound tightly round them, or blue cotton trousers very tight in the legs and baggy at the top, with a blue cotton garment open to the waist tucked into the band, and a blue cotton handkerchief knotted round the head. from the dress no notion of the sex of the wearer could be gained, nor from the faces, if it were not for the shaven eyebrows and black teeth. > the short petticoat is truly barbarous-looking, and when a woman has a nude baby on her back or in her arms, and stands staring vacantly at the foreigner, i can hardly believe myself in civilised japan. why do you think japoids were any different? also i'm from a*stralia
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