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... seen from the capital of Japan ; and at European places of amuse- ment Japanese houses of real size have been exhibited , and the jargon of fashion for “ Jap- anese Art " even reaches our children's ears . Yet all these things seem dull ...
... seen from the capital of Japan ; and at European places of amuse- ment Japanese houses of real size have been exhibited , and the jargon of fashion for “ Jap- anese Art " even reaches our children's ears . Yet all these things seem dull ...
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... seen fat public wrestlers stand on opposite sides of a sanded ring , stoop , rubbing their thighs , and in a crouching attitude and growling , slowly advance upon one another , then when near to one another , the spring is made and the ...
... seen fat public wrestlers stand on opposite sides of a sanded ring , stoop , rubbing their thighs , and in a crouching attitude and growling , slowly advance upon one another , then when near to one another , the spring is made and the ...
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... seen they would best like to spend their money on a young turtle . For their pet rabbits and mice died , but turtles , they say , are painted on fans and fans and screens and boxes because turtles live for ten - thousand years , whereas ...
... seen they would best like to spend their money on a young turtle . For their pet rabbits and mice died , but turtles , they say , are painted on fans and fans and screens and boxes because turtles live for ten - thousand years , whereas ...
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... seen in Japanese deco- rations . He is the god of luck , and has a reputation for liking good cheer , as suggested by a gourd , a usual form of wine - bottle , that is suspended to his cane , whilst another gourd contains homilies . He ...
... seen in Japanese deco- rations . He is the god of luck , and has a reputation for liking good cheer , as suggested by a gourd , a usual form of wine - bottle , that is suspended to his cane , whilst another gourd contains homilies . He ...
Page 71
... flowed past with not a pebble or weed to be seen , only a blue , bottomless depth bordered by rank grasses . He was musing on the breadth of the river , when the water began to move as if some- thing was coming to his side . While trying ...
... flowed past with not a pebble or weed to be seen , only a blue , bottomless depth bordered by rank grasses . He was musing on the breadth of the river , when the water began to move as if some- thing was coming to his side . While trying ...
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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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