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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hirikar in Japan. (search)
Hirikar in Japan. --A letter written by a Frenchman at Jeddo, and dated January 5, contains the following: The Japanese who yesterday passed through the principal streets of Hongo, the aristocratic quarter of Jeddo, were surprised to see not one, but fourteen houses covered from top to bottom with while hangings, a sign that each of their owners, a noble or some high functionary, had been ordered by the Tycoon to kill himself during the day by ripping open his bowels. On receiving notice the unhappy man makes immediate preparation for death. He calls his friends and relatives around him, and with them he drinks rye brandy, eats sweetmeats, and jests upon the uncertainty of human affairs, until the arrival of the imperial inspector, sent to see the execution executed. On his entrance the master of the house rises, takes leave of his friends, and passes into another room with the inspector and two or three relations. After hearing the decree read, the condemned man