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Updated: May 18, 2025
All have a regular fire costume, from the 'Oki Yaconin, or 'head man, to the bare-legged coolie, who carries the badge of the brigade in large red characters on his back. On arriving at a fire, a point de tête is selected generally a house, on the roof of which the fire-charms are immediately fixed, as if to forbid its further advance.
The board on the right contains the official intimation of the crime. The curious instruments depicted in the woodcut are Japanese emblems of justice and are to be seen at all the guard-houses; they are used to catch runaway offenders or to pin a drunken yaconin against a wall or house, and so facilitate the task of disarming him without danger to the captors.
An intelligent yaconin, however, on being questioned about this point, was much amused; and, though he professed ignorance of the subject, was evidently very sceptical on the matter of the dishes. The 'HARA KIRU.
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