THE JINRIKISHA In old days before foreigners lived in Japan, and indeed for many years after, the only means of being conveyed from place to place in this country -excepting shank's ponies-was a small, square, uncomfortable basket slung on two poles borne by two or four men, this depending on the weight of the person carried. This conveyance bore a very distant relationship to the sedan chairs		used by your great, great grandmother and mine little reader, but was ever so much more inconvenient and uncomfortable even than that. Then there was an ingenious European-some say he was a Frenchman -who had a happy thought, and it shaped itself into a jinrikisha.
前頁へ 次頁へ