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An artist's letters from Japan (1897)

La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 40

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g to the cadence of the music. The boxes were mostlyoccupied, and by a distinguished-looking audience; theNoy as this operatic acting is called, being a refined, clas-sical drama, and looked upon differently from the moreor less disreputable theater. Hence the large proportionof ladies, to whom the… … NO DANCER WITH MASK, REPRESENTING THE SAK]fe IMP. which most of the women held, whose leaves turned overat the same moment, just as ours used to do at homewhen we were favored by French tragedy. A quiet, sleepy appreciation hovered over the scene ;even the devotees near us, many of them older…

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