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... well his lightly - draped figures , cranes , and insects be- cause these things strike him as beautiful , but because he is familiar with their every action . The Japanese house brought to Europe . seems but a x.i INTRODUCTION .
... well his lightly - draped figures , cranes , and insects be- cause these things strike him as beautiful , but because he is familiar with their every action . The Japanese house brought to Europe . seems but a x.i INTRODUCTION .
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... prints containing smaller prints , often in- geniously arranged , so that , if cut out , a box , or house , or figure can be constructed ; coloured paper masks , tiny folding theatres , and little penny picture - books THE SCRAP - BOOK .
... prints containing smaller prints , often in- geniously arranged , so that , if cut out , a box , or house , or figure can be constructed ; coloured paper masks , tiny folding theatres , and little penny picture - books THE SCRAP - BOOK .
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... figure who wears a huge grotesque scarlet mask on his head , and at times makes this monster appear to stretch out and draw in its neck by an unseen change in position of the mask from the 奄 head to the gradually extended and draped ...
... figure who wears a huge grotesque scarlet mask on his head , and at times makes this monster appear to stretch out and draw in its neck by an unseen change in position of the mask from the 奄 head to the gradually extended and draped ...
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... figures . Here a celebrated warrior , Kato Kirjomasa by name , who lived about the year 1600 , when the eminent Hashiba Hideyoshi ruled Japan . Near the end of his reign Hashiba Hideyoshi , wishing to invade China , but being himself ...
... figures . Here a celebrated warrior , Kato Kirjomasa by name , who lived about the year 1600 , when the eminent Hashiba Hideyoshi ruled Japan . Near the end of his reign Hashiba Hideyoshi , wishing to invade China , but being himself ...
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... figure before which Yosh's Grandmother exclaimed , Why , truly , that is clever ! Behold , I pray thee , a barbarian lady , and even her child ! " In truth it was an unconscious caricature of Europeans , although the lady's face had not ...
... figure before which Yosh's Grandmother exclaimed , Why , truly , that is clever ! Behold , I pray thee , a barbarian lady , and even her child ! " In truth it was an unconscious caricature of Europeans , although the lady's face had not ...
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amusement Author ball bamboo BARBARA HUTTON beautiful bevelled boards Calf or Morocco called cards CAYZER charcoal child Chrysanthemum clogs cloth elegant Coloured CONNAUGHT RANGERS COPY BOOKS crown 8vo DARNELL Daruma daughter delight dogs dolls dress ECHIGO Eighth Thousand English face father Fcap festival Figures filial piety fish FISHSAVE flowers French Morocco Frontispiece Gallant Deeds Garuta Genji gilt edges girls GRAMMAR GRIFFITH AND FARRAN hair hand Harrison Weir Hashiba Hideyoshi head HISTORY imitated Iroha Japan Japanese children junk KANGURA Kioto kites Kogo lacquered lady Large Text limp live looked mask morocco antique mother NEEDLEWORK night O'Shu OLIVER GOLDSMITH paper parents parsley picture piece play Plumblossom Post 8vo PRAYER Queen rice rice-fields scarlet Schools scrap-book Sewed shoes shuttlecock snake snow-man SPORTS OF JAPANESE stilts story string tail Tale temple throw toys traveller Tsuneyori turtle Uranai whilst wooden wrestlers Yoshsan young
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