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| Keywords: YokohamaFireBrigadeAtheletics.jpg Exhibition of Fire Brigade Atheletics Streets of Yokohama Japan Scanned from period stereo view c 1900 Text on reverse EXHIBITION OF FIRE BRIGADE ATHLETICS YOKOHAMA JAPAN Fires were formerly so common in Japan's wood and paper cities that the nickname of Yeddo Blossom was applied to the flames which in winter almost nightly lit up the metropolis with lurid splendor So completely did this destructive agency establish itself as a national scourge that a whole vocabulary grew up to express every shade of meaning in matters firey The Japanses language has special terms for an incendiary fire tsuke bi and accidental fire soso bi fire starting in one's own house jikwa a fire caught from next door morai bi a fire shared with others raisho anything that may cause a fire as a brazier hinomoto a visit of condolence after a fire kwaji-mimai and so on Oooka the Japanese Solomon mayor and judge of Tokyo early in the 18th century organized the first fire brigade in Japan Since his time fire engines of European make have been brought into use The number of conflagrations has been much diminished of late by the general introduction of stone and brick buildings and wider streets On Jan 4th the firemen parade the streets with their tall light ladders and give a gymnastic performance Public domain No listing of publisher date nor assertion of any copyright Unknown if first publication was in Japan or the USA; one of these tags apply PD-US -or- PD-Japan-oldphoto Acrobatics in art History of firefighting in Japan Stereo cards of Yokohama | ||||
