La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 198
single stone overgrown with weeds and bushes. Thesegods along the river are all ugly and barbarous,— coun-try gods, as it were,— alien as possible, while the natureabout them, though strange, is not so far away from me. Their ugliness was accentuated by a sort of efflores-cence, or moss growth,… … STATUE OF OYA JIZO. ject. Fortunately, they are what the Japanese call wetgoods, that is to say, unprotected by roof or temple,and the rains of heaven cleanse them and leave only theblack and white of the lichens. They always worried melike a bad dream when I passed them in the evening, onmy way…
Art, Japanese
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