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Updated: May 16, 2025
Another fact not generally understood in connection with this is that in Old Japan the question of recompense for service was left to honor. Hence the importance of the chadai, or present of tea-money, to the hotel. From the poor a very small sum, from the rich a larger sum, was expected, according to services rendered.
Billie motioned to her that she wished the proprietor, who, indeed, was close at hand. With an expression of much surprise he received the chadai and bowing to the ground murmured something which Komatsu explained meant honorable thanks for poor insignificant service.
Tearing out a leaf, she wrapped up what would amount to about a dollar in American money, then with her little silver pencil she wrote on the package "On chadai." "That means 'honorable money for tea," she explained. Next she clapped her hands. All through the house voices could be heard calling "Hai! Hai!" Presently the maid appeared hanging her head humbly.
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