rikishas

The 'rikishas race away with us quite to the other side of town – past great forts and fosses, past the mikado's palaces and gardens, to the famous temples at Shiba.

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

In the flowery hotel-court we find our 'rikishas standing in a row in the moonlight, each with one of the pretty lanterns swinging; and we too flit away behind our sandalled steeds.

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

We race across the city again in our 'rikishas to the great park of Uyeno, to see the sun go down behind Fujiyama ... to look out across the city's vast hive with its million or more of folk whose myriad lights begin to twinkle in the violet dusk ....

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

English officials spin past in dog-carts with bare-footed muslin-clad grooms up behind, and wealthy unctuous Chinese merchants bowl about in 'rikishas.

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

The 'rikishas have swinging from their shafts now crimped pink and white paper-lanterns, and flit by in the dark like fire-flies.

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

"As we passed down the ruined village, returning to our rikishas, we came on the last house of the village, which was standing intact, and entered in conversation with the owner, a very old man.

Korea's Fight for Freedom 1900