When it is time to go to bed, they
spread soft quilts on the floor, one over the other. The last quilt on
the top is the cover. These beds are very nice. But you could never
guess what kind of pillows they have. The pillows are blocks of wood
the size of a brick. You would not think them nice at all. But the
Japanese seem to sleep very well on their wood pillows.
[Illustration: A Japanese Bed.]
Many of the things in the houses in Japan are made of paper, They have
paper fans, paper lanterns, paper hats, paper cups, paper umbrellas,
paper napkins, and paper screens.
They have no stoves. Instead of stoves they have boxes lined with
brass. In these boxes they burn charcoal to heat their rooms. But
they do not cook their food in these brass boxes. They cook in little
ovens made of clay.
When it rains in Japan the people look very funny. The men wear rain
coats made of rice straw. They also have big straw hats and paper
umbrellas.
[Illustration: A Rain Coat.]
They wear blocks, three inches high, fastened to the soles of their
shoes. These keep their feet dry. So on a rainy day everybody looks
three inches taller.
In Japan they do not wear shoes in the house.
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