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Updated: May 15, 2025
In the higher Government schools, and in the Normal Schools, the students who are boarders obtain a better diet than most poor boys can get at home. Their rooms are also well warmed. 6 Hachi yuki ya Neko no ashi ato Ume no hana. 7 Ni no ji fumi dasu Bokkuri kana.
Every boy and girl knows the verses comparing the print of cat's-feet on snow to plum-flowers, and that comparing the impression of bokkuri on snow to the Japanese character for the number 'two. These were thoughts of old, old poets; and it would be very hard to invent prettier ones.
Still more curious is the spectacle of men walking in bokkuri or takageta, a wooden sole with wooden supports at least five inches high fitted underneath it so as to make the whole structure seem the lacquered model of a wooden bench. But the wearers stride as freely as if they had nothing upon their feet. Now children begin to appear, hurrying to school.
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