Peeps at Many Lands: Japan

THE TORII OF THE TEMPLE

OUTSIDE A TEA-HOUSE
CHAPTER
BY ELLA DU CANE

SKETCH-MAP OF JAPAN

THE LITTLE NURSE
Far away from our land, on the other side of the world, lies a group of islands which form the kingdom of Japan. The word Japan means the Land of the Rising Sun, and it is certainly a good name for a country of the Far East, the land of sunrise.
The flag of Japan, too, is painted with a rising sun which sheds its beams on every hand, and this flag is now for ever famous, so great and wonderful have been the victories in which it has been borne triumphant over Russian arms.