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and development
are all
just
as
the
conventional
ornament
almost
unknown
up
visited the country, although
architecture
resulted
from
very
finish
of
the
objects
themselves,
trodden
by
European
feet),
who
himself
seeing
what
I
wished.
While
in
Japan
I
made
a
did
taken
for
me
about
a
twelve.
I
mens
of
work
from
to Mr.
Japan
—Temple
Pages
1-18
n.
Yokohama
riches
Tea-drinking
ceremony
aspect ploughed
the shallow
waters of
the coast.
behind it
however,
of
Japanese
there,
at
a
vast
height,
shines
of
Tell
clouds
love
to
sleep
being
regarded
passengers
thus springs
up around
interesting
and
Japanese
army,
old.
No
sooner
does
the
not received
get into
a jinrikisha,
best of
at Paris
tins of Crosse
confess
that
while
most perfect
 
fellow-passenger
from
San
Francisco),
high step
on
stands
which
interest
which
float
which, bordered
we
have
ignited
charcoal
which eol'nd
of about
water for
a few
these
empty
cups
a
second
from a
sea-slugs
with
herbs
and
sea-weed
is
served,
but
the
observations
with
framework
is
drilled
partially
Prince
Montenuovo
The people here are
or
sugar.
robes
of
the
his
carriage,
which
is
that
into
Japan.
For
centuries
habit of
walking in
the
roads
house, which we soon
received
is
covered
stove,
which
can
scarcely
be
ministers
if
all
things
are
ready
Japanese
letter
inches in width,
paper somewhat
on which to
He next mixes a
begins
to
ink,
upon
corner, the
second follows
immediately under
it, and
lacquer
silk cord.^
been touched by
the messenger. An
answer comes in
most
successful.
Mr.
was founded
this
ordinary
Europe is
side
considerably
above
its
level.
now
as
small
arti-
ficial
bridges,
by
this
camellia
blossoms
looking
as
fresh
as
fields or
Shiba
lies
in
the
beautiful
before
his
a
new
charm
and
extends
about
six
feet
the monument
none but
whose remains are entombed
have
already
as yet
purity,
of a
This
name,
sacred
and
C
excitement. I
was awakened
I
out of bed.
as I could reach,
the following
well insured.
the
morning.
Here
I
saw
piles
of
octopuses
hue,
while
others
tai
I
ever
saw
offered
coins,
now
superseded
by
a
to partake
of a
in
in
of
a
London
we
saw,
attached
dimensions
ever
to
visit
this
hotel,
and
see his face.
oc-
which it is
intended, as all
outside
of
which
can
open. The
kneel
upon,
were
which
was
on
and
being
rather
a
than a
intended to
—much
finer
than
anything
out
discre-
tion.
With
pipes
half inches in
tea-kettle with
of the brightest
Japan
is a charming art work, and over it spreads a
spray
obeisance, and now
room,
and
soon
re-enter
with
These saucers
transparent plastic matter like
and a white
at
first
with
the
chop-sticks
which
mass
the larger
this
connecting
cord
the
but even then it seems an age before I can
break the
with
one
mouthful
of
not
think
held on the left knee and the other on the
right
shoulder)
lays
aside
these
instruments
harp,
and
four
more
musicians
as play
friends
with
whom
custom
that
sachi
cups
are
to
the
tray
and
warm.
ous,
large
Cutane
dish
green algae. In front is a pile of small slices
of
raw
fish
gar-
passed to one
barbaric
cruelty
in
all
this
keep
while
creatures causes, probably,
of
^
in
both
throat
is
making certain scratches over the region of the bowels before
committing
the
symbolise the
reason for
the etiquette of the
lively
dancing.
charges
a
pipe,
the
bowl
of
which
would
and care-
probably, like many
the
shrines
around
the
sfreat
supposed
a
By two the
 
Museum
Sekisawa.
contained them
should meet
I
leave
this
;
foliated
tops
feet from
con-
orange,
each wrapped
—the emblems
In these
cases the
central bamboo
causing ladders
and in
and stands
support
brandishes
in
both
hands
a
chopping
instrument
short,
the
exercise
 
each
corps
pendent the cut papers which sym-
bolise
displayed
in
these
I
new
Day.
The
underneath
by
;
during
which are
down
floor
moment
without
as they
great
purpose to
a
bit
of
spread over the mats,
than
now
learn
that
a regular
intended
to
hatch
standing in beautiful
building is old
both
across the water
and then
is only placed
then continues
on the
other side.
light
bamboo
a
Chinese
landscape
in
miniature.
of the
as a
with
gold.
The
hair
of
all
Japanese
ladies
is
an eighth of an inch in
thickness.
slight
shock
crossing
members.
B.
At one
a
building
small
Temple of Uyeno in Tokio.
From a model
get a
rather
than
rich purple cone drawn
it
Harry
of
of
the
ministers,
while
his
conversation
and
draw
up
a
fact
visited, by
compelling all
Indeed,
Mr. Okubo,
in reality,
the reigns of
he
now
holds,
and
which
Okubo,
have occa-
sion to
After
my
another
he
and I
have notified
attended
you
during
your
time
they
will
museum
now
they
through
Mr.
C.
J.
Strome,
and
you
will
please
letter of
that that gentleman
month
as
so
well,
who
there
were
two
men
with
went
and
pro-
the
ministers
are
accompanied
by
ride with
drawn swords.
that
he
had
just
received
your
it.
clearly
ought to be
Japs
will
long. Sir Harry Parkes
and
thinks
it.
of
his
removal
be
accurately
estimated.
the mint,
and some
many
would
journey
even
from
Europe
The
Japanese
had
no
natural
great Confucian
are
dispersed
of
that
of
Con-
fucianism,
and
European
professors
have
supplanted
which
they
have
Confucian Temple
monotony is
worthy
librarian.
Leaving
the
university
building
this in his hand
subsisting
between
the
arts
of
etching
and
European
methods
to
promontory
which
forms
the
southern
road
is
as the fields
to
the
bluffs
or
sandbanks
resembles
the
sandbanks
roots
The
the largest towns in
the
been
brazed
together,
and
at
their
(the Nelumbium), which
have been beautifully
when
but
when
a
we are
priest
who
some
cases
common to
kind
a
offered
to
little
soy,
and
putting
the
saucer
to
his
tea
and
cake
would
be
about
two-
pence
We return to Yokohama by road,
and
reach
Tokio
by
a
late
train.
by
Mr.
make
I
of
seeing
him.
His
message
audience
at
two
Harry Parkes
remem-
and
other
countries,
nature and appearance
indebted
to
Messrs.
Londos
will
preserve
unpolluted
pattern is
paper of similar
ample folds, a cloth
By the
The stand of
level
as
the
table,
room
will
master
of
cere-
monies,
stands
the
minister
a slightly
paper from
the
gallery
of
the
Japanese
consist of
with
earth
along
the
main
aisles,
acting
during
a
horse
brought
along
this
aisle,
which
socket
cock
is
gray
(being
the
large
placed
upon
the
paper),
charcoal
upon
the
paper,
which all
magnolia,
then
he arranges pink petals into groups, resembling the flowers of the
almond,
This
sketch
took
the
lady
was
managed,
was
artist
till
nearly
dry.
It
was
ink,
the
central
portion
of
the
side and dipped
the
brief
Japan
Mr.
Sano
contributed
much
to
my
enjoyment,
tainment
provided
for
me
this
afternoon.
which I
antiquities,
he
will
rise
between
his
leo-s.
o
A
finer
evening
than
moon,
now
two-thirds
full,
gives
From
the
centre
of
the
highest
portion
constantly
changing
darken. I see
produces,
characterises
but above
calm,
and
Japanese
gentleman
who
was
not
dimmed,
and
the
Japanese
of
which
we
have
heard
in
they
generate
certainly
assumes
with
chemistry
as
boys,
are
very
curious.
At
the
custom-house
the
alone a
provinces through
to
he
can
neither
make
valid
such a privilege been
and
short
rhinisters,
will
clear
by
lines
of
soldiers
seems strange that
wherever there is
The
advance,
I
of the Mikado, all
natives
do
himself
and loudly
royalty should
Legation
that
that
he
stokers on
right and
own
country
that with the class
Europeans
give
up
their
seems but
all times amenable
gentlemen
yacht
and the
other the
it
occupies
river
which
town, and
a
charming
view
of
Kobe,
before
us
that
are
inter-
mingling
and
bobbing,
now
being
temples at
beacons,
the
told, we
shall reach
be
interesting
to
and this
district,
the
island
reached
the
island,
and
the
town
to
economise
time,
foreigner cannot
be
these
bridges,
carriage
and
all.
but turned out only
let go his
ground.
the large
towns which
said,
rice
oiled paper was placed
was
too
low
the
also cause
during
the
ducking in the
late to steam to Kobe, we take
supper on
We
a pillow, is
a
exactly
coverlets over me ? Am
who
dimensions, hence it is impossible
to
or
window
little
with
golden
oranges.
in
Japan.
in a
any
house)
are
made.
These
thirty
shillings,
town, we
never
small
inland
river,
might
of this
I
am
lost
setting-
sun
of a
I am suddenly aroused from my
reverie by
of
sailing gear
at
once
proceed
to
his
passes
we
visited
four
and
paddy
us
up
the
long
incline
stretch-
I
out-of-the-way
this
particular
these coolies took
the
instrument,
which,
commencement
interest,
and lovely. On
shadows
sun
and
a
find Mr.
in
a
we cannot imagine, for this is his first appearance amongst
us to-day. Ishida
that
we
a two-days' journey,
that
the
which,
although
erected
apartment
town. Being ready
which the
servant is
called in
for
me,
to take
three
which can
rise, and
small tub has
European but
imperfectly to
serve the
with
her
to bring
the town, we
shapes, baskets
so dainty that the
England.
We
now
of the most fashionable
virtues. We look
resembles those of
most simple apology
It
be
manufactured
is
all
we
vat,
and
only seventeen inches
margin
of
wood,
while
a
layer
of
forms its centre.
by two,
pulp. She had
wet
sheets
of
few
the one to the other must
be explained
in
its
boulder stones
primitive
manner.
In
board—
Arabs
through
of
Nara,
where
Mr.
Okubo
invited
collection
of
it
was
formed
probably consists of presents
of
the
certain,
that
do
as
we
are
by train
for Osaka
thirty-three
and
a
half
inland
journey.
As
though
our
half
a
mile
on
the
other
side
inspected it,
the
pro-
prietor
has
an
some of the out-of-the
me that he
make is
of
certainly the
that
at Kioto, where it has
since
remained
down
to
with some slight interruptions,
and shortly
that of
Government
to have
Some
fresh
objects
of the
damaged
and
effects of
that
monarch's
arrayed
exterior
of
the very
remarkable character
think that
the eighth
dishes,
spoons,
soap
tortoise-shell
back-
scratchers,
beads
and
ornaments,
these
things
ewer of
time
in
consisting
of
several
buildings
which
has
been
rebuilt,
but
are
pearls,
gold,
silver,
agate,
coral,
amber,
very
with
contains another Buddha
an
are about twenty
and
a
of the wood runs
we
print
wall
and
produce
the
impression
the inter-
of an
inch,
and
serve
only
as
handles.
from
which
we
print
of the
of these
figures
and
were
permitted
to
enter,
the
cup
and
the
stand
is a young
pagoda,
and
impossible to view
being
through
a
second
of
courtyard
Buddha, fifty-three
temple,
on which rest
earthquake,
when
impression is
paper-string.
It
thief;
but
quite impossible by
brass,
which
is
very
good.
preserved
a
spray
of
bamboo
and
certain
rocks
interesting.
There
are
wood
while
the
other
is
one
thousand
as to
things
which
supci'sedcd,
old,
be-
longed
a
during
Chinese
Celadon
vases
(each
others
consists
of
circles
regularly
and
separated
from
one
another
a sort of
almost
meet.
In
each
circle
manufacture.
resembles
One
from
with
a
is in character
general as
tender-
There
is
a
glass
ewer
with
a
well-formed
lip,
;
a
see,
on
any
tied around
the
diameter, a
were
mythological animals,
goose
and
to the
the entangling
fabric.
Similar
fabrics
arc
now
made
complex
character.
felt
cloths
are
made
has
never
been
practised,
so
although
twelve
a
little
acid
sufficient time,
coloured
woollen
yarns
upon
the
surface
that, by the
and
one of these rests
but
second, and this, in its turn, gave place to a
third about five
two latter roofs.
struck
with
large
base and
hollow,
and
the
orifice
is
closed
but
the
great
interest
specimen
of
the
first
ever
a
temple.
is
to
be
performed.
This
house
is
a
long
building
parallelogram.
Its
windows,
which
form
the
entire
see
front of a large
has a flute,
Nara.
Nara.
intervene
between
the
groups.
When
seen
Japanese,
between
them
it
is
supposed
that
the
who
They now rise,
are alternated
while
word.
handle
(Fig.
34).
A
small
I
was
not
cheerful
voices.
unkind
look,
greatest
possible
interest,
thousand years
that the one
and
ornament
was as
cloisonne
enamels
was
as
perfectly
understood
twelve
and
thinnest
of
bowls
things have
There is
one specimen
more
than
modern
a
state, which,
we have
porcupines'
quills
are
disposed
render it
quill
boxes
of
India,
or
that
the
Japanese
the
making
during
deal
of
truth
in
the
statement
that
the
Japanese
were
Chinese
manu-
facture,
as
of Asia, came
with
a
religious
cere-
a
sacrament
little
interest
formerly
the
Japan
Weekly
only
Geyslia
(dancing
kind,
and
of
this
country,
sketches
of
had
he
walked
this morning.
temple
door
with
nails
havingf
heads
With
examples
temple
of
Dai-butz,
in circumference,
while each
wood,
and
the
building
has
doubtless
been
at
times
restored.
When
such
and
natural
convulsions.
Besides
any
is in itself
can
only
solid
method
bundles
of
Papyrus
reeds
buildings
sway
the
ridge
Alhambra
legitimate
We, however, have
both
wrongly
and
in stone
it only right
do.
We
women offer
eat out
of our
hands. The
and
wander
;
Mr.
a
pleasant
journey,
and
 
yet come
when, by
interest
for the
this
we stopped for refresh-
it was bitterly cold,
a new room has been pre-
pared at the
dais, which
sort of frieze,
the
circulation
small
fish-pond
of
about
four
the
purchased.
The
and
stays
with
told
that
the
food
over the
in Kioto
by
canals,
and
has,
for
this
many
Much
and
white
metal
kettles,
carved
start at
10 A.M.,
Japan
the time of tlie revolution in 1868, as the Daimio
system
we are
running towards
begin a
rapid, zigzag
Gothard
road
on
a
There is a fine
(which
of
the
river-beds,
almost
unbearable
not
using
part
Japanese
the
Japanese
beds
the fur rug.
To-day being the
Julian
Mikado
as
well
clock also
the preceding
industries,
but
it
is
especially
here in
the little
is, are
cases,
to
melt
the
frost
to walk, save
cannot say
 
medium
quality.
that formerly
of a
far as I know.
I am the first European that has ever visited this town,
and
the
wild
beast.
At
Awaji
the
foreigner
A
Government
Wakayama for my
one
of
and
is
mountain,
which
we
had
Many
made is
town.
Amongst
these
are
both
plain
and
chequered,
greatest
possible
in-
terest
—a
city
consisting
in a slight depression on the summit of a vast
mountain.
This
city,
but instead of leaving th river as we should do
to
regain
this
as
jinrikishas
cannot
kagos
are
being
prepared
slightly
raised
rim
suspended
by
To take
partial.
My
feet
will
form
two
two
of the
soon fall
strange and
most precipitous
dell, nestles
bamboos.
we
descend,
and
here
every
house
every
wall.
We
now
path soon
village,
which
his
goodness
in the city.
in less than fifteen
branches
sandals
on
his
feet,
pushes
fill
my
Dai-butz.
For
a
thousand
years,
and
no
foot
or
at
its
back,
living-rooms,
house
is
wood,
of the walls is also without paint or varnish. The
slides
forming
the
partitions
upon them,
An
excellent
meal
fish, and
eggs,
Japanese tea.
place
was
desecrated
by
this
wretched
Koya-zan,
a
shops
breakfasted, and are ready to see the temples. The morning
is
bitterly
as I
was
frozen
guide, we started
next of a cup,
rests
(Fig.
38).
There
are
hundreds
been
erected
sons, and the
make up
are
and climb
nearly new
(it was
we
are
received
by
the
sacred
edifice.
but
the grove,
are
preserved
is
Kongoho-Zi.
Visiting
a
house
containing
to
its priests to
marry, and also
to rest
indeed, the roofs of build-
ings,
enter our kagos,
and the path so slippery that we are afraid
to
be
carried.
Soon
my
and
adopt
the
native
shoe.
I
be
wading
with
We
wear
neither
topcoat
Never did I see
ostrich
feathers
dimly-
drawn
distance
which
might
belong
to
comfortable,
and
it
a
sudden
bounce.
A
cold
thicker
tures of
my
inspection.
There
steel
manufactures
of
Japan,
—and
afterwards
a
pottery,
when
Mr.
past,
came
in
visiting
army
Upon our return
a general in the
of
this
work.
The
senior
been made
rebellion
one down, is
is fond
of sachi.
Near the
stalls, where
the possessor, and in its simplest form may be pro-
cured
for
one
halfpenny.
The
falls
resembling
over,
and
has
a
his
wealth.
The
most elaborately
like
Yebisu.
cut,
and
about
a
small
gallery,
the
lattice
railing
of
which
is
literally
covered
with
the
belongings
of
children—
all
got,
Grounds.
should be
exposed
to
danger
on
them
as
done. take up my
fatiguing
ascent
to
the
Mariyama
hotel
on
the
hill.
as
every
some religious
interest.
and
customs,
and
set
the East Gateway
visible in the roof.
carpenter -builder,

.
suffi-
ciently
cherry-trees.
white
lines
indicate
delicious in
;
over the
and rare
in
visiting
potters,
metal-workers,
visit
certain
stand
bridge
resembling
drawing. To
the
answer
tures
Temple.
k
which
stands
is the
more to
be regretted
as it
is
two
inches
this colossal key
style
which has
museum.
Fig.
49.—
Inside
looms weaving figured
some
of
the
most
bear
patterns
of
each
specimen
attached.
To
time
a
specimen
of
Japanese
translucent
enamel.
This
seems
one
which
might
visiting
all
the
manufactories
necessary
buildings,
a
dependent
upon
the
character
of
its
manufactures,
which
is
know.
It
is
intended,
however,
at
some
the state
dates. The
of
the
lacquer
-worker
giving
drawing
was
characterises
are chiefly
works with
a.d. 622. The name
a
upper
part.
in
the
ashes
of
a
cremated
found
when
his
body
is
burnt,
found
are
formed
of
certainly regard as
Chinese, while one
we
do
not
know
which
are
small
specks
of
yellow-ochre
strange
precision.
What
I
saw
was
little
which
the
guests.
the
company,
and
;
then
rising,
touches
his
forehead
to examine
then
it
same
manner.
It
stone-ware
This
is
demands that each
and
that
most
I have
our
jinrikishas
are
carried,
for
although
we
four miles
From this
sphere I
abode
from
Kioto.
Soon
such
named Kusatsu,
a crash, and I
w^heel has rolled yards in front of us. As
I
am
not
hurt
this
European
style,
for
on the
comfortable
difficulty by sitting
wooden seat
a
hundred
in changing
later a further
miles
nothing
a linch-pin
Kioto
make
beef-
twenty-four miles,
large
where
all
the
the real hide.
Inaki rarely,
if ever,
finds its
flutes.
we
walk
rising
other
ones. At certain
sun
and
it,
and
even
now,
although
this
age,
I
see
small dais on
are
offered
to
spot.
embraces
fire
worship
many booths
the near
size
of Tokio
Japan.
This
town,
so interesting
flourishing place.
houses. But my
as hotels are
be a
sacred grove
can
go
within
Mikado to pray for
approach the
by
the
hand
pine-wood
and
raised
On the steps are hundreds of small coins and papers
in which
it is
a little
of those in the
consists
staircase.
Japanese
most sacred and the most interesting of any in the
world.
Shinto
was
declared
national
religion
shrine
for
sorts
of
small purchases
I bought
the
side.
When
of
passage,
The
wide,
while
cart-wheel. A long carpet
there is no
the
the room,
when
the
dance
was
over,
I
do
and
to
disappear
instantaneously.
Before
each
of us as we sit, and placed on a little stand, is
a packet
which
symbolises
here
remark
that
in
Japan,
which is
also a pile of little cakes shaped like the wheel-like
crest which
decorates the
The lanterns
ceiling,
and
motions of the
and all
is over.
on
in
both
districts.
seems,
days since
Mr. Sakata
an advantage
has
been
as the
this
reduction
of
taxes
possible.
While
I
imports
for
we
had
the enormous
of some of the
money one-eighth
twentieth part
In,the morning
Shinto
shrine
appear
bounding
through
to
the
more
sacred
formed
wholly
express
forty miles
in the
Yokkaichi
is
features
of
the
the
occasionally
produced.
After
a
long
round
ought
in
manufacturing
of
Japan,
and
cabinets,
much
Near
the
than any-
thing I
panels, are
present—
the
latter,
like
the
Roman
for I
of
the
Owari
porcelain
manufac-
ture
some
one
to
scarcely
agreeable
could
the
letter
one
with
us
porcelain
manufactures
of
Japan
perplex the student
we in
regarded
as
merchants,
or
Japanese
esteem :
and
Japan
the
merchant
skill, and prefer
should do
handicraftsman,
however
great
his
knowledge
or
of
mere
money-making,
and
the
production
loving,
painstaking
toil
 
quote eighths
ten mo
but
Ishida
got
was
control of a
town,
who
had
Mr. Ishida has brought
troubles in other
governor,
to
proceed,
we
the
nearest
road),
On
our
officer
waiting
to
;
 
Uyeno,
in
and
carved
on
both
sides,
on
one
side help, instead of mar, the general effect of the other.
These
able
to
great.
Hundreds
of
soldiers
that
out
of
serious
curtail-
sum. To these
certain days
;
on all
;
in times
had a glorious
where
much
woodwork
road) for
a
clothes-line,
so
do
the
poor
of
Japan
of
Okazaki,
where
there
is
one
to Tokio. It
the
way,
nor
Sakata
have
now
in
revolt,
robes, their
Having
had
a
At nine o'clock the
uniform
regular
rows
kind of seaweed
which we place
through
front
gardens
are as
houses
stand
lovely
little
shrines.
I have
construction
the
houses
The
ascent
is
steeper
than
clear
again
—but
its
vast
and
peerless
cone
ings.
of
the brake
1.30
English market.
We next
saw a
The
of
great
beauty
for
least as far
to Kobe,—before
they can be
almost
oppressive.
It
is
that
of
a
July
day
of
near
distance
on
right lay
sacred
peak.
 
the vastness
of the
while
many
it with
so
bank, and here
can
travel,
and
for
twenty
miles
we
must
the
Lucerne, is
has
come
over
this
strange
gateway
through
surrounding
mountains,
hotel.
From
our
rooms
world
is
blue
a crispness so
to ride, as
we
are
about
to
descend
is
For six miles
the snow with a steady
and firm
ing a cage
with a jackdaw
even in Switzerland.
come to a little town in the
province of
in
in
the
Saumarez,
who
had
been
for the
one
or
two
matters
which
the .shrines
since.
of
a
kind
of
enclosed
a mast
about thirty
and
a hoop. On the
and
a
masked
actor,
whose
a
woman,
—changing
his
processions
themselves
is
a
diminutive
hotel, we
Shrines
of
Nikko,
after
a
en-
closure
while
courts, one
within, or
situated on the
side of a
ground.
Fig.
panels
object
to
standing
under
a
canopy,
which
is
a
have
water,
almost
lashed
into
tempest,
colour,
and
conveying
the
reader
other buildings,
pass without
beautiful.
Dealing
rise five
horizontal member,
tween
and
nails,
with
is repeated
ten times
us
as
we
enter
it,
are
carved
treated
with
masterly
skill.
Leaving
this
court,
must
be
seen
indescribable.
There
the roof
might well
69)
is
separated
from
centre of which
base
and
same width
depth, then another series of the same
depth
The lower range
passing
;
 
In
the
most
harmonious
manner.
cloisters,
and
used
which seem
lintel
sockets,
and
above
govern
the
distribution
of
ornament.
through this gateway,
I
for surely
am
Buddhist,
and
it
is
of
folded
in
Figs.
82
and
87).
The
producing
a
similar
room
in
this
country.
This
entire
group
;
little
having
run
eighty-three
w^eather
has been
and the bracket
its
brutally
assassinated
after
my
trouble
to
arrange
them.
After
your
heretofore,
and
I
can
assure
models
your
and said, and
decorations
and Rome in
of India, sending
to
the
fine
arts.
Dr.
Dresser
very
:
 
and
of
ginger
grown
in
Japan
exportation were begun it
of the general
be advantageously included
as a flavouring in
should
pungent
preference over
thin slices must
fact that the
There are four
kinds now manufactured
and
the
quantity
As the warp is treble in velvet,
so
in
to quintuple, according
used for very fine pattern,
and
the
'
put in
cuts
Sakai
Ken.
repeated
over
differs
from
are
placed
and put round
the
industry
is
said
to
1
articles,
send
inferior
places
unreasonably
prejudiced
care
little
for
home
productions.
And
it
At present
many
kinds
by hands without
fixed
There
The composition of
artistic taste in
forth, in
of
Kinai
(five
provinces
buildings, and
are very
highest
value
and
interest,
and
which
may
not
help
articles
sold in
having
this
the
custom-house
much demand
is
(as
York,
that
arrangement. I
with the
silversmith business
the
;
alcoholic
beverage.
sale.
Perseverance
the outlay
business. Intelligent
the management of their
unnecessary
have
and energy of
for
the
expenses
of
production.
improved
that
in Europe is
On
that
occasion
there
was
one
who
protested
interior
parts
of
Japan
for
many
months,
and
their
Japanese
people
are
compared
with
Europeans,
their
their daily wants.
direction
must
Japan,
which
is
almost
language
equivalents
of
countrymen
the
meaning
intended,
it
is
re-translated
into
English
would
to a weaver, or
a
very
different
a
process
this report was being
absence of the little drawings
that
to
understand
what
structures
are
tions under
temporal
ruler,
and
professed
had
magnificent
creating.
This
religion
was
Japanese
mythology
Shinto,
and
says
the
personified
forces
in
its
worship.
symbols
gohei,—strips
of notched
white paper
is
have,
'•The
ancestors, and
descent by
purity of
rites
and
He must bind a strip of paper over his mouth
so that
washing,
poured over the
hands, and this
people.
Later
figures
symbolising
the
worshipper often does
 
efficacy for his
offered
as
hung up
exempt
fowls now
which
rested
as
daybreak.
offering
of
right
or bronze.
exposed
to
view.
the
 
genuine product
before
Confucius.
Japan
Japanese
among the
Ainos of
ground
time
pleasant to
stands an
evil omen.
town, carries it up
considered lucky
to keep
of the
Clavie
Roman
sculptures
have the worship
sun
emblem of
most
given by
also
revealed
in the
simply
perfect
be. Here
enclosed.
household
sacred
in
every
house
is
have
learnt
me
a
box
which
producing
love
all created
things which
that
Buddhism
in
Japan
consists
while others are
injure
the
smallest
will
long
since
they
are
removed
altogether
from
the
the
Japanese
the
lower
creatures
Japanese
especial beauty
world,
of every
modified the architecture of
which
production of
six
weeks,
between
weather.
summer
unknown
at
require buildings
ings
shelter
by other
one
of
of
insuring
safety
during
these
periods
It
become stationary
was
heavy),
or
any
upheaving
readily
be
thatch
even
fibrous
inner
bark
Some of the
prettiest roofs that
i
2th
last,
the
correspondent
says
hundred are
so I
had to
 
with
here
now
gradually
a
land
is
be
these materials,
while it
 
ages
to
the
;
of
from
each
the
of
building
by a
great
temples
and
worthy
structure
is
employed.
 
for
I
been
bers
supported.
Fig-
'^3
gives
as
decorative
purpose.
As
Japan
with
seen
individual
materials
wall is
stone
colour
(yellow
in shape,
within
wall,
each
of
the
whole
being
coloured
and
is
situated
mortar which
my eye, more strange than beautiful.
We
the
origin and history
develop-
now
was
erected
nineteen
centuries
I
cresting
of
that used
for the
in the
decorated
period.
Chinese
buildings
sticks.
The
temples
a
derived
from
from
two
Thebes,
plants
bound
partially
enveloped
in
a
cloth
wrapper
apparent
original bundles of
form the
became
to
this
apparent,
it
must
not
temples
which
formed
so idealised as to
rests
folding
a monster,
which
water
flows.
In
are
breaking
decorated
buildings.
to the
columns
pillars
decorated
with
water
have no
qualities
conventionality
Were
construction
temples of ancient
were the primitive
houses of the
of
Japanese
architecture
in
Japanese
people.
If,
of
the
original
dwellings
of
Japan,
we
consider
But
Japanese
house
are
Europe,
makes
no
There
noble
-
gable
in
producing
pic-
skill,
gables (Fig.
lower pitch
poor rooms
(Fig.
58),
will
show
the upper
to
ornament,
in the year
to illustrate
94,
work,
Enrichment
Nikko and
the
;
at
the timber
and
beautiful
as
their
?
equals the best of
even superior. The
manuscripts
mansion.
left
college
he
was
apprenticed
 
relation
one
to
two
is
structure
are
of
Shinto
procession,
and
here enumerate
It
to
Japanese
to think that storks must be almost as common in
Japan
as
seems
most
and
hen,
and
not
two
male
sword
which
the
sun-goddess
gave
to
while
the
lords.
Some
Japanese
attention
ground
(Fig.
1
14).
a
skeleton
holding
a
long
bamboo
which
 
good
Japanese
objects
are
me
sprays
it
evening is brought
grows.
On
well-known hawthorn pattern,
/
carving of
short arms
with short legs could
Japanese
carving
from
are
fully
shell,
to
which
is
being
rendered
with
a
work.
The
creature
bodies
are
readily
be
mistaken
under
portion
of
and
forms
al-
though
it
would
indefinitely.
But
we
may
consider
crouching
position,
go about
the streets
on.
From
this
the
body
have
;
and
in
the hideous beast-like mask the artist has had room for his fancy.
The
and
the hands.
join in
turned round
 
fine
that
its
decorative
introducing
just
that
amount
of
normal
type.
The
ing
so.
consumed in
acquiring such
power can
bibulous, so that
absorbent
quality
freeness
of
motion,
and
this
precision
point
and
teach
point
something hard and
the
with the
crayon or
the pencil.
By this
a brush, and the
not
the
academic
system,
namely,
the
drawing
generally
 
streets
of
Tokio,
could
of
this
slightly
caricatured
of
wisdom.
Various
crabs,
charmingly
the
simple
manner
order
;
Japanese
artist,
in his
appear
it
smiled,
a
herring
wag
its
tail
with
on a
musical instru-
also
manifested
that
keen
perception
of
individual
qualities
and
our
shops
may
be
the European market)
be
ornamentists
to
consider
these
drawings,
misunderstood :
I
do
not
Japanese
style.
I
merely
of the country that adopts them. They must be so
modified
they
exist.
Broadly
determining
the
relationship
and
the
bear Chinese
made
Y
character,
and
the
potter's
mark
changed
afforded by
these
rugs
that
any
one
well
acquainted
Chinese
potters,
so
Rhodes
due
found
on
ceramic
and the study
to
Thus, because
the
we
spread from Central Asia
special interest.
tomb in the
was
got
out,
or
at
what
the
ornament
which
the
Fig.
155.
inquiry will
Perhaps the earliest
ancient
Greeks
placed
a
and
that
this
great Daibutz
of Kioto
the
 Vesica
Piscis
of the
circular nimbus
and
interesting
sets-of-three wires
flower,
of the
Dai-butz
at
through civil
wars, and
Buddha
is
a
mere
copy
the words of Grififis,
worship. I
Japan,
says
three
thousand
tons
has
grown
ensign
of
Japan
is
also the view of Mr. French, but
my own
at Nara we have
Now
the
Japanese
great price
symbol of
soul of man.
 
one instance
anything produced
in later
comment further
upon it.
at
hands while praying
of these
forms we
also
on
the
lower
portion
of
seventh
century
(Fig
50).
In
the
of
the
have
loHO
or
mere
which
t
the
Gohei
thrown
by
female
warriors
at
Fig.
century),
gives
the
back view of three sitting hares reduced to a most simple form
with
their
;
Fig.
1
16
q
gives
us three of those little folded papers which we always find
attached
three
arrows
used
;^
'
them are merely
variations of one
Maidenhair-tree,
old works had
some cases almost tempted to think that the specimens before
me
branch
a bud
I
need
scarcely
about its
produced under the
lotus,
same
conventional
manner.
of five
used the
may
also
notice
that
a
conventional
modifica-
representation of the sun. By the
ancient Egyptians a
boat, it
ceremonial
head of the asp
figure,
and
Fig.
163.
the
flower
wings
and
pendent in
which
I
am
with the
temple, I
(Fig.
1
49)
the manner
poised on
which
the
ancient
Egyptians
two
countries.
mouldings,
and
we
have
the
slanting
walls
of
the
buildings
sistrum
is
a
similar
form
character.
Thus
the
in
one
of
little
crystal
drop
set
in
In the early
China and
forget
archaic symbol
an
old
sword
-handle
of
native
Spain,
and
a
two or
showing the probable
origin of some
acterise early
lacquer-work
at
the
from
this
strange
country.
in the press
during
the
seventeenth
and
eighteenth
few
years.
has
old
equal
to
one
hundred
pounds
in
English
money,
and
brush
marks
were
told
me
that
it
amount
to which
it was
of the age of
and therefore before
became his own decorator.
of
ornament
instance is
corners
portion, both
and
a
quarter
in
length,
eight
inches
bevelled
one and
by
has a silver
;
object
which
box,
such
as
Japanese
of
during
sleep,
as
ground.
Here
and
there
are
dispersed
work of the
but
drawing of
a graceful
the
autumn
flowers
this
modern
manufacture
being
made Osaka.
There was
striking
resemblance
work
made
in
incrusted cups
imitations
appears
crude
but
the
Japanese
intelligent
either
covered
with
a
minute
geometrical
In all specimens
the
ground
bears raised
How this old
great
and are
produced
scarcely a
been imitated
of comparing
the whole of
such
also
made
in
different-
coloured
whole is incised
many
purposes
As
are
produced
in
Tokio
and
Kioto,
character.
thin it
may be,
the
lacquer-
worker
over
each
faulty
or
weak
place,
with
the
colour may
the
a
spoon.
Some
of
this
powder
work is
produced, he
took a
an
inch
in
(Fig.
1
70,
b).
;
the
liberated
from
On this
nine
a super-
(which
be very
these
about
three-sixteenths
(Fig,
171).
lacquer
and
formed
the gold.
removed.
This
two
thin
mixed
with
red
oxide
of
to
colour
will
show
through
the
powder
is employed
do
and then the
process
differing
only
in
work, which is to contain inlaid pearl, is begun, a
drawing of
tions.
place,
the
by
and
the
having
been
take their
a serious
wound. Even
take a kind
to notice
its excellence is
good from the inferior.
process
it
becomes
colour.
Usually
changed
into
 
or other
give richness
to the
the
work
is
sacrificed.
Common
cheaply by a
even
impervious
to
water,
objects
so
decorated
are
the trees
grown for
a
third
celebrated
hundred
and
twenty
me
shillings
a barrel.
grain
especially
sardine
my
informants
some
cases
made
which
was
invented
by
of
some
the art
in
colour
some
specimens
of
Banko
ware
are
a
the
confusion
becomes
great.
potter
has
a
son
and
place,
he
will
be
considered
the
here in
visited
Japan
to
case
made
remark--
able
wares,
he
formerly
carried
on
his
art
be-
queathed
his
business.
of a
advantage
of
contrasting
produced
at
different
parts
made
So esteemed
this
par-
ticular
manufacture
idea
was
such
that
wars
certain
coveted
goods,
the spoiler
province
manufacture.
the
Prince
potting in
century, yet
we
have
the
beginning
and
Banko
teapots, of
consisted
in
his
ignoring
the
and
the
thumb.
to
have
ceased,
and
it
business, works at
at
Kuwana,
diameter, and two
finger.
A
teapot,
somewhat
but
an
ounce
work,
and
the
opening
thus
formed
 
and the
a marbled
accompanied
by
other
cases
entirely
a
simple
manner.
have in common
small
group
the
process
of
the form of small
I
the
obtrusive. The whole
glaze,
makes
a
with
white
opaque
matter,
slug
ware.
with
a
pine
branch
having
a
bird,
made of a
and the body
higher
temperature
than
is
commonly
used
for
the
formation
of
biscuit
ware.
When
burnt,
Satsuma
ware
is
and was decorated
rare
in
Japan,
and
during
Mr.
now, and, when we consider the extent
of the
where
the
civilisation
in the practice
of the useful
the
Japanese
went
in
those
days
a
degree
of
skill
which
was
Japanese,
are
said
Ninagawa
palace of
settled
of
the
Japanese
of Nagato, and became the founder of a family which
still
exists
villages, named Kushikino, Ichiku, and
Safinogaha,
to
Chiyosa
 
Shiya, and Sai,
with
a
black
made the discovery
long
oldest specimens
of
the
art
of
called Nishiki-de.
removed
expense for
1868,
of
the
architecture
of
to
the
about a
a day,
 
is assigned the joining of these parts together. Generally the
members of a
joint
owner
The clay used for the coarse
ware
is
found
at
Kukino,
and
Noda,
coloured,
red,
large
articles
of
the coarser kind of ware. Three sizes of wheels are in
use,
the
about three inches thick,
eighteen
long. It is
of
the
upper disk, and the potter sitting on the edge of the
hole
turns
the
wheel
round
parallel
rows.
Each
is
vening
partitions
to
allow
of
end
apertures
diameter.
Two
hundred
each
other,
every
that the
process
the decoration
ingredient which
of nara
wood {Quercus
timber.
settle at the bottom are then taken up and dried
on
boards.
To
this
process
white
earthenware
four
certain
material,
but
previously
to
being
actually
being a piece of pottery
marked
assume the desired tints
used for
producing the various colours of the fine Satsuma wares. Dr. Edward Divers,
Professor
lead {tau
no tsuchi),
copper oxychloride {rohi-
colour
of
which
is
 
con-
taining
a
assumes a
intended to be
decorated later on
two pieces—
namely, a
brasier and
and
Dharma
a
tiger
half
Japanese
feet
in
height
in
this sub-
stance was
Nagasaki in large quantities.
a
sentimental
wood-
cut
the body and limbs
vases of
(as they are called)
596-161
5)
knot at the top of the head
;
days
as, for instance, when
he
good enough to put
He began by
a
tied
a kind
Buddhist
stand
the
glaze.
The
aspect
of
the
that has fallen
colour,
but
aspect.
The
popularity
which
Satsuma
ware
colours,
and
those
neutral,
light
lines.
But
recently
it
South.
and
qualities.
Some
are
of Awata wares is
seen
on
is
decorated
are
of hues
generally
the
in
with
this laboured work.
whom
make
the
speak, while others do
the
founded
at Shiba,
to
Makudzu
ware,
force
rather
than
works
i)roduced
for
the
ordinary
delphia
America
flowers
with the
formation of
large old
There
are
the potter.
work
than
the old
Satsuma ware
colour,
but
slightly
deeper
in
tint
tender
of
interest.
But
as
Unyei,
well
to
a
with
groups
were
first
where
he
but
recently
once
Horinouchi
Sozaburo,
and
more
recently
was
he
who
rediscovered
how
to
make
Kishiu
this ware the glaze will be
found
crackled
the two
and gold,
in red,
gold, and
Japanese
under
Japanese
;
given
for
persons
true
that
there
specimens, and
the country, and
especially in Seto,
and
pottery
districts
of
Japan,
is the
chief manu-
facture. It
are
Tsunekichi and
made
of this
to be assisted
with Government money
Ichi-no-kura,
the
drawings
pencil-
work
On
hexagon,
be
it
of a certain character
each
other's
wares
and
parent, renders it most
If
a
potter
even
the
fine
works
which
works.
For
many
days
I
devoted
a
highly
;
the
thought
of
but
what
in
of the city, would at least lead
to the
conclusion that
they were
to a
recent date.
Besides the
regular porcelain
artists of
made in
generally
paint
colour
mind their
their few wares.
in the door-
in height by
the tenderness of
kiln
he
appears
his wants at
and those of
in which
been amused
maintain the
apparent
of industry,
that the
potteries
at
which
pieces
Beauty
and
subtle
pro-
cesses
by
which
the
Japanese
must be
—as a
vessels
and
gourds
the
one
may
mention
Japan,
strangely
used
It
has
all
countries,
such
an
investigation
the
the country, and
materials
and
fine
porcelain
This
neighbourhood of
at
different places all the materials necessary for the biscuit, for
the
coating
central
part
of
^
;
strongly baked biscuit,
 
extract from the
of
a
up
wherever
a
small
stream
consequence
decanting
are
carefully
to seven
the clay is done upon the
common
potter's
inches
to
form one
system of wheels, which is placed over a vertical round piece of wood
fastened
in
the
ground.
means
of
a
workmen in
Arita turn out large dishes of three feet in diameter, as
well
as
the
so-called
egg-shell
porcelain,
not
thicker
and large
pieces the
simple and
imperfect construction,
disc.
Vienna
Exhibition
is taught to the
effect
at
open
air
they
are
shaped
with
intensity
the
fine
receives
the
painted with the
oxide of cobalt,
always
of wood
ashes freed
ashes depends on
place which the
which is not
used
are
not
white
or common ware. For the Celadon the body is the same, but
the
glaze
is
made
of a
mineral different from that which is used for the glaze of the
white
ware.
The
craquele,
piece
is
baked
before
Chinese
ink,
so
 
slope
higher
the
kilns
were
of
a
presents no
more easily
length of twenty-
position, while
the section
the
wall
facing
kiln.
;
in the
straight
high tem-
the firing, even in
hours
firing begins.
those
inner
the firing begins.
of
round
tables,
and
placed
one
upon
another
great advantage
prepared and the
side walls erected
a
end,
then
bent
and
broken
fire-bricks,
the mixture
beaten with heavy
;
the damaged part of the kiln is broken away, and
a centering built at the
required place in the manner described
above
being more
be
the
on the boundaries
their
turns, so
baked
a
purer
material
for
home
in order to be decorated on the
glaze
with
coloured
enamels,
at a
and
nitre),
with
various pro-
portions, for
are very
sort
a
slight
enamels are
painter
so that the
appear when the
native style of
 
second
time.
wood
is
another
and
sitting
the
usual
manner,
stop-
 
a
solitary
case
chasing,
engraving,
the
goldsmith's
never been
excelled. This
seven
hundred
military
supremacy
way
of
a
reward
great state
by the
of
which
I
preserved,
barons, who held
in
the
country.
of a flight
group forms a
ever produced
International Exhibition by
the
feathers,
more or
brought
before
the
people
Barbedien of Paris added
accomplished
his work I should say that he had learned the
Japanese
secret,
his
results.
The
great
addition
of
a
other
slips
as
would
be
needed
for
their
support.
The
model
taken
pressed
matter,
have
necessarily
been
to the
mould, and
also holes
expelled at the
the wax
model is
first coated
with semi-fluid
air,
and
it
was
spiral lines appeared
regularly arranged
on a
to
Japan.
The
finest
work
country, and
in the
perfection
unknown
to
near
alloys used,
countries.
We
 
:
 
I
ducing
the
richest
metal,
to secure its
pin, can
small
plaques
work.
is
greatly
increased
by
have been
stork.
longer than
a
leaves on which these flowers rest is formed of some
dark
metallic
alloy,
and
which
has
the winter
comes
before
me,
that
I
myself
know.
reflected
orb
medi-
the finny
of reflected
sheet
of
resource
of
polychromatic
harmony.
The
Japanese
have
more
and not
only brought
gold and
understand how
to com-
combination
of
European
people.
One
teapot,
which
was
beautifully
oxydised
and
subdued
Japanese
is
gold,
things
of
is
demanded,
man who
has no
art knowledge,
and who
production
material
are those
of a common
feet
to be given
surface, where
bad^e
of the
is now employed
so as to
few
all the spare
fluid poured off ;
pattern, for
 
weak
acid,
 
Although
which
There
is
another
the leaf
Each leaf,
the
is picked up
dipped
fabrics,
we have
no process
it most
more or less
little
go into matters
given
about
forty
feet
in
length
and on the entire
of
production.
a most
tenacious and
bowed
beneath it. Thus all is ready
for
pin-shank.
The
whole
pattern,
how-
finely serrated its
conical tube of oiled
and some of other
shapes is painted, with all
the
exquisite
group
of
flowers,
some
singular
interest.
No
purely
by this mode
disposed to
persons
I
have
already
facturers
will
in
the
raises
introduced
production
of
the
fabric
are
of rich
pattern,
when
the
velvet
of
had been
pean art.
Japanese
figure
fabrics  
Japanese
by
which
the
European
about
and
the
flowers.
In
that much of
Gkound
AND
Flowers
of the nature
and drawing
the latter
through the coil. This class of work is made with a fine thread
when the work is on a
small scale, and
of
walls.
The
forming
It should be
fabric,
seen the
and
this
arrangement
bright.
shaded
or
mixed
yarns
write
I
see
Then
mixed threads,
but here
and are
so managed
crestings
and in
a
It
head,
while
standing close beside
silk.
respecting
so with
employed,
however
varied,
in
yellow-green
silk
thread,
all
processes
and
all
materials
pieces
of
white
we
in
contact
in
height
manner,
not
stew-pan).
If
fed
by
either
of
the
pre-
pad
which
issues
form
of
folding
The
Japanese
place
their
autograph
find
in
any
other
are sometimes
formed of
perforated
the perforations are
only
in
paper
exactly
wooden
importance to
cut
into
shape
and
with a
of resisting dirt
there is
basket
may
lacquer and
have
already
an
contrast
of substances
in the
this use
It
is
so
with
other
materials
which
extent
chased
kinds, but that
temples
sights
we
should
wine
from
a
Venetian
was retained.
entirely devoted to
the common
stems
in parallel
Sagami,
baskets,
used in
the
pilgrim
bottle,
is
lacquered
and
inlaid
orna-
ments
more
or
made at Tajima
divided
each
series of carved
the
box
has come
from the
manner called
stands
Fig.
portions
and
carrying
of
bamboo
on
strings,
as
spreading
the
their
houses
are
formed
of
this
reduced
to
a
give
to
it
the
appear-
ance
of
other
substances.
taken
for
the
making
apply leather. In
into cabinets and
of
labour
to
describe
on porcelain,
I have
the country Dr.
where
the
man
filled this
Ensiland.
order
duh/'s TJi.
Th.
Amentifera;.
Used
for
handles,
ships,
Conifera;. Used
for timber.
Used
Fir. Abies Tsuga S. et Z. Coniferaj. Used for timber.
Sugi.
Japanese
Beni-byakusin.

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