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Title: Things seen in Japan
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866-1959
Subjects: Japan -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London Seeley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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careful, the materials aregenerally marvellously simple. One finds this both in and out of doors.A Japanese gardener will succeed in con-veying the idea of almost illimitable space,and of shady wood and hill and valley, bythe careful disposal of a few trees, theconstruction of a tiny pool, and the settingup of a few rocks, or a stone lantern madehoary by exquisitely tinted lichen, on aplot of ground which to a Western mindwould be scarcely large enough for a tiny 104
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!c-rc„ i opyri^ttt, ( >i,t,-rnw,t ,- L . London &■ .\e-M York. TIIK STAIRS LKADINC TO IIli: TdMIt Ol llli: SIKk.I \ IKYASU. lie was, perhaps, the yrealest nuliiary ruler in Japanuse history, and was thefounder of the Japanese feudal system. The trees are cryptonierias. Home Life in Japan lawn. The ordinary villa garden of aLondon suburb, say 25 by 16 feet, wouldin his hands soon take upon itself theappearance of spaciousness, and blossomlike the rose. Just the same remark is true of theJapanese system of flower arrangement.Most Japanese with a small handful ofchrysanthemums and a sprig of pine willproduce a complete decorative schemewhich a European would only attemptwith three or four times the quantity offlowers and foliage. As in their glypticand other arts, so with their treatment offlowers, both in the garden and in thehouse, four qualities seem to stand out asbeing characteristic of the Japanese mind.They are a just appreciation of space, alove of line, restraint of t

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