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An artist's letters from Japan (1897)

La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 186

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mense amount of sun-shine and the same amount of rain, compressing intoa single day as much as would suffice at home forweeks of summer and winter. Suddenly, from hot blueskies, come down the cloud and the wet. The lovelylittle hills or mountains opposite our house round out,all modeled and full,… … MOUNTAINS IN FOG BEFORE OUR HOUSE. stamped against further mists, like pale prints of theJapanese designs, making me see those pictures increasedto life-size. And I realize how accurate these are, evento the enlarged appearance of the great trees whichfringe their tops and edges, as these are seen…

Art, Japanese

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