A large portion of the people profess the Buddhist religion.  We visited a large temple at Hakodadi, full sixty feet high.  The tiled roof is supported on an arrangement of girders, posts, and tie-beams, resting upon large lacquered pillars.  The ornaments in the interior, consisting of dragons, phoenixes, cranes, tortoises, all connected with the worship of Buddha, are elaborately carved and richly gilt.  There are three shrines, each containing an image, and the raised floor is thickly covered with mats.  We were shown a curious praying machine covered with inscriptions.  At about the height easily reached by a person was a wheel with three spokes, and on each spoke a ring: turning the wheel once round is considered equivalent to saying a prayer, and the jingle of the ring is supposed to call the attention of the divinity to the presence of the person paying his devotions.  The Sintoo worship is practised also among the Japanese, but its temples are less resorted to than those of Buddha.