From the latter place Hakone Lake is but about fifty miles distant, and by jinrikisha and kago may be reached in one day.
Since the completion of the railway between Tokio and Kanagawa, travellers journeying from the capital down the Tokaido usually ride on the train to Kanagawa, so that the jinrikisha journey proper nowadays commences at the latter city.
Yomoto and the recommencement of the jinrikisha road is reached; a broiled fish and a bottle of native beer are consumed for lunch, and the kago coolies dismissed.
From Kokura the jinrikisha road leads a couple of ri farther to Dairi; thence footpaths traverse hills and wax-tree groves for another two miles (a ri is something over two English miles) to the village of Moji.
It is difficult to imagine the Japs going to all this trouble and expense for mere jinrikisha and pedestrian travel; yet such is the case, for no other vehicular traffic exists in the country.
The price for a jinrikisha is five sen, and Josiah thought it meant five cents of our money, and so handed it to him.
It is a great improvement on the Japanese jinrikishabecause one may compare impressions with a companion.
One of the remarkable jinrikisha rides in Japan is that from Uyeno to Shimbashi station through the heart of Tokio by night.
In the narrow streets of the native quarter, which seldom exceed ten feet in width and which have no sidewalks, the jinrikishais the only carriage.
Occasionally the jinrikisha dashes up a little bank and across a bridge that spans a canal and one catches a glimpse of long lines of house boats, with dim lights, nestling under overhanging balconies.
On his return to the railroad the tourist would do well to take a jinrikisha ride of five miles down through the great avenue of old cryptomeria trees to the little station of Imaichi.
The jinrikisha is also largely in evidence, but the bearers are a great contrast in their rapacious manners to the courteous and smiling Japanese in all the cities of the Mikado's land.
We rested on the balcony of a tea-house overhanging the lake, and then the descent was accomplished in one unbroken run, one coolie acting as a drag behind, whilst the other in the shafts steadied the jinrikisha round the sharp curves.
In coming away we passed the Minister of Justice in a victoria, with a jinrikisha roped behind, containing his detective.
The jinrikisha bulbous lights come out, one by one, like glow-worms, and the single lamp lights a dark interior.
His assistants were assembled there and with them were eighty donkey boys, each with his donkey, a number of jinrikisha men with carts, and chair men with chairs.
After reaching the foot of the mountain we found our jinrikisha men, each with his little chaise, ready to trot off for Yokohama, about thirty-five miles distant.
The jinrikisha is the common mode of conveyance, though the palanquin is perhaps nearly as much used.
Our jinrikisha men took us there in less than an hour and a half, but as the road rises towards Kioto we were fully two hours in returning.
Even the useful and comfortable jinrikisha could not be used here, where everything to be moved must be transported on human shoulders.
Miss Scidmore is the author of "Jinrikisha Days," as well as other books on the East.
To return to the streets--although one sees many carriages and a few motors, the man-drawn jinrikisha is still the most popular conveyance; a few years ago there were forty thousand of them in Tokyo alone.
When Miss Scidmore, the author of "Jinrikisha Days," asked a great tragedian who wrote the play in which he was appearing, the star was puzzled and said that he did not understand.
On first coming to Japan, I found it usual for a Japanese who wished to take a jinrikisha to call the runner and take the ride without making any bargain, giving him at the end what seemed right.
They are kind to children on the streets, to a marked degree; the jinrikisha runners turn out not only for men, women, and children, but even for dogs.
The author has made a similar jaunt inland from Yokohama, in a single day, the cooly who drew the jinrikisha coming in at last in as fresh a condition as a well-driven horse would do.
The idea of the jinrikisha is borrowed from Japan, but that of the small bullock cart comes from India, where they are common all over the country.
With the first tone, the jinrikisha wheels had stopped.
Suzume unwillingly remained at the gate to haggle with the three jinrikisha men.
Through this mechanical means he informed her that she was to attend Prince Hagane's banquet without fail, and ride there in a double jinrikisha with him, her father.
He moved one finger toward three waiting jinrikisha men near-by, and the vehicles, like magic, stood beside him.
The voices of young children, the whirr of the low red sun through fleeting jinrikisha wheels, the gentle, restraining touch upon his hand of falling petals, jeered softly at the self-deceiver.
On the slope of Tabata he got out, shook himself like a great dog, and sent Yuki on in the jinrikisha until level land was reached.
They work with double force by lamp and by sun," boasted the jinrikisha man, when they had passed the most deafening uproar.
The two laden jinrikisha coolies tugged on with ostentatious groans.
Fortunately, the jinrikisha men have not the instinct of packmules to be persistently trifling with its outer edge.
The sunshine quickened us all, and our kuruma took the road like a flock of birds; for jinrikisha men in company run as wild geese fly, crisscross.
While I was still surveying the scene, the jinrikisha men, one after the other, emerged from the gulf out of sight on the right and proceeded to descend into the one on the left.
I was for jumping from the jinrikisha to see, if not to do something myself, when I was stopped by the jinrikisha men, who coolly informed me that the houses were lime-kilns.
We left our jinrikisha at the top and zigzagged on foot down the steep descent, and straightway departed the upper life of fields and larks and sunshine for a new and semi-subterranean one.
Amid farewell wavings from the jinrikisha men we pushed off into the stream.
Accordingly we left Toyama after lunch in the best of spirits, in jinrikisha, for Kamidaki, or Upper Fall, to which there professed to be a jinrikisha road.
We tucked ourselves into our jinrikisha and started down.
The following morning, I took a jinrikisha ride to the country and revisited several points of interest.
We took a jinrikisha for a general exploration of the old Chinese city, and aside from what has been indicated, we went through the native quarter, saw several temples, visited a Chinese school, and ascended the high wall for a view.
We reached our destination late in the evening, and had a jinrikisha ride of over an hour before turning to the Central Hotel, which had been greatly damaged by fire, but which we persuaded our Director to select for us.
There were many jinrikisha rides and much general enjoyment during the two weeks and a half that followed.
At Yumoto we took a jinrikisha for the ascent to Miyanoshita; the route was picturesque.
This had been ringing in my ears all the way, and to be compelled to proceed through the long street of the village in a closed jinrikisha was tantalizing.
The jinrikisha ride to Aberdeen, a fishing village some miles distant, proved delightful.
A steam launch conveyed us to Nagasaki, and once there we took a jinrikisha for a memorable mountain ride of five miles, along a road called the Mogi.
One afternoon I took a jinrikisha ride on the Bund, past the great warehouses, or godowns as they are called, filled with goods or food stuffs for shipment to every port in China.
We took a jinrikisha from the station, and first visited the Temple of Hachiman, which occupies a high position on a hill and is reached through an avenue of pine trees.
The jinrikisha is intended for one person, but occasionally you see two Japanese or Chinese of medium size occupying a single vehicle.
The jinrikisha is a carriage like a small chaise of the New England pattern; it is on two wheels, and has shafts like a handcart, and there is a hood over the top that can be opened or closed at pleasure.
They perform the work of general servants about the house and grounds, and whenever the master wishes to ride out he orders the jinrikisha and its accompanying coolies.
Riding with a jinrikisha is cheap enough for the most contracted purse.
It is nothing unusual for three of them to pull a jinrikisha fifty miles in twelve hours, with only three halts of a quarter of an hour each, and they have been known to make sixty-five miles between sunrise and sunset of a long day.
The man-power vehicle, par excellence, is the jinrikisha of Japan.
By this they were from sight and hearing of the river, and had begun to thread the maze of narrow city streets in which now lamps and tiny electric bulbs and the bobbing lanterns of hurryingjinrikisha men had begun to twinkle.
The jinrikishamen arrive, and after assuring their hostess that they never had had so lovely a time before, Lotus Blossom and Toyo make two deep bows and return home very happy.
As Toyo and Lotus Blossom draw near, the jinrikisha men make a place for them in the crowd, and Toyo jumps out to get a lunch.
The Rapids of Katsuragawa (a famous resort in the maple season) is fourteen miles by jinrikisha from Kiota, which takes about three hours and a half to accomplish.
The third jinrikisha is for our guide and hamper of provisions.
We land at Arashizama and resume our jinrikisha ride to Kiota.
A ride along the shore of the Mississippi Bay, and through the country where rice and millet grow abundantly, in a jinrikisha with a good natured coolie is a delight.
Yuki San laughed and smoothed the cushions in the jinrikisha while she gave minute directions to the jinrikisha men.
Merrit climbed into the jinrikisha "No, Yuki San, you know I'll soon have a little home of my own to work and care for.
Yuki Chan, looking from him to the smiling jinrikisha man, grew crimson with anger.
Yuki Chan watched the back of the jinrikisha and the swinging brown legs of the jinrikisha man that showed beneath.
The jinrikisha man, who stood a smiling spectator, saw Dick Merrit's hand move toward his pocket, and was instantly alert and eager to settle the matter.
Presently the clatter of the jinrikisha in the courtyard announced the arrival of the guest.
Him say t'ank you," interpreted the jinrikisha man.
Standing over her was the jinrikisha man, and beside him was his passenger, a young American boy, whose light hair and blue eyes held her spell-bound.
A sliding of the screen and a call from the court-yard announced the arrival of the jinrikisha men, who had come for the baggage.
It was bitterly cold on the afternoon of Friday the 26th; even the shelter of the house at Nishi Okubo with its shoji was comforting after our long jinrikisha ride in a biting wintry wind.
Before Otsu was reached a sudden rainstorm came on, and Percival was made yet more uncomfortable by having the hood of the jinrikisha put up, and a piece of stiff oilcloth tucked about him.
But Sanno was getting his jinrikisha under cover, and Percival had to submit to the gentle, but firm, determination of the nesan.
When he got his eyes open he found that it was a jinrikisha man and that he was talking to him in Japanese.
Hai, Hai," he said and when the jinrikisha was wheeled about and June was invited to get in, you may be sure he lost no time in doing so.
To be going out all by himself in a jinrikisha was quite like being grown up.
But before Monsieur could answer, Seki had called June and the jinrikisha had started on its way.
When he reached the parade ground, he stopped to rest, but no sooner had he sat down than a circle gathered around him, two jinrikisha men, four boys, a girl with a baby on her back and an old fish woman.
Now keep your body still," cautioned Seki San as she put him in the jinrikisha and gave final instructions to Tanaka who was bowing and grinning and bowing again, "Tanaka will wait for you, and you must come when he calls you.
The jinrikisha man seemed to be explaining and the soldier to be asking questions, and while they talked June sat very still with his heart beating furiously against the long envelope in his blouse.
June, and Monsieur had only sufficient time to wipe away the tears from his withered old cheeks before the guard returned with the jinrikisha man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jinrikisha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
