“We believe,” said the Japanese boy, “that it takes all of a person’s life to learn anything.”
A JAPANESE SCHOOL.
That this was a common opinion in Japan Tom soon found out for himself. Whatever the trade or profession in which a man was engaged, he seemed to have been at it all his life, and ten to one his father and his great-grandfather before him had followed the same business, and each one of the family had given so much time and attention to his business that he became almost perfect in it—as far as Japanese perfection went.
JAPANESE WRESTLERS.
For instance Tom went to a wrestling match, where the wrestlers, great powerful fellows, all belonged to a tribe or guild that according to their account, had existed ever since the third year of the first Mikado, which in our chronology would be the year 658 B.C.
JAPANESE BALANCING FEATS.
At any rate, they were men whose ancestors for hundreds of years had been wrestlers, and they themselves gave up all their time and thought to the attainment of perfection in their art.