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Title: Japan and the Japanese illustrated
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
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Publisher: London : R. Bentley & son
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cabicatui:e of a donze. sparing; they only exceptionally reach to the dramatic energy of the human passions.Most frequently they limit themselves to giving animals a costume, or an attitudewhich invests them with a certain symbolic character. Tliis is the lower decree ofanthropomorphism. Such for example is the personification of the twelve signs of theZodiac—the mouse, the I)car, the tiger, the hare, the di-agou, the serpent, the horse,the ram, the monkey, the cock, the dog, and the wild boar—each adorned withvestments and attributes relating to their astronomical functions, or to the parts whichtbcy play in astrology. CARICATURES. 3i3 A sketch by Hoiksiii, no loss harmless, Imt wuav iinuising, represents a lico-warehouse in which rats, the most dreaded enemies of that precious cereal, formthe warehousemen. Nothing is missing in this pretty scene, from the cashiermaking liis calculations with Lis lend frrmo, to the f-alesnian turning over his hooks in
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IIIK RAT lliri; MERCHANTS. order to demonstrate to a purchaser that he cannot abate a farthing in the piicc.The shopmen are carrying the bales, of which the purchaser is taking an invoice, ontheir shoulders. The money is in little straw bags, which the coolies cany atthe ends of their bamboos. Everything is conducted with the order and regularity 344 LIFE IN JAPAX. becoming to a great house. The smallest details are drawn with the care which wouldbe bestowed upon a serious composition. It is in this kind of comic art, childish orheroic by turns, that the Japanese display most ease and originality. I frequently noticed a dash of satire of a political kind in the numerous andvaried sketches whose subject is furnished by the trains of the Daimios. Forinstance, I have seen many in which the personages of the cortege, beginning with theprince himself, arc represented as foxes or monkeys. The satirical intention is not less manifest in those pictures in which we see thesuperior of a bonze-h

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