[ [160][160] Some Yamagata notes and those relating to Akita are conveniently included in this Chapter, but these two prefectures are on the west coast.
[ [161] A rin is the tenth part of a sen, which in its turn is a farthing.
[ [162] A kind of barley sugar.
[ [163] Bean soup.
[ [164] A street in Akita in which many prostitutes live.
[ [165] Closet.
[ [166] Bean paste.
[ [167] The warm black current from the south flows up the east and west coasts. Some distance north of Tokyo, the east-coast current meets the cold Oyashiro current from Kamchatka, and is turned off towards America.
[ [168] See A Free Farmer in a Free State, pp. 173-4, for an account of the custom in Zeeland by which peasants preserved themselves from the calamity of childless marriage.