HORSES.  JAPANESE horses are stabled with their heads where their tails should be, (from our point of view) and are fed from a tub placed at the stable door.  Japanese riders mount their horses from the right side; all parts of the harness are fastened at the right side, and a man leading a horse and cart walks on the right side of the animal.  The horse's mane is trained to fall on the left side, and he is shod with straw shoes instead of iron.  In the country districts, young girls and old women act as grooms to the pack-horses, attired in tight-fitting lower garments exactly resembling the men; so that when sitting astride on the pack-saddles as they generally do, it is almost impossible to distinguish girls from youths.
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