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Child-life in Japan & Japanese child-stories (1879)

Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, 1846-1883 · London : Griffith · leaf 146

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NEW years decoration (page 26). GAMES. GAMES. Some of the games we are daily playing at in ournurseries have been also played at for centuries byJapanese boys and girls, such as blindmans buff, … called Mekakushi (eye-hiding), puss in the corner, catching,racing, scrambling, a variety of here we go round themulberry bush, knuckle-bones, played however with five 96 CHILD-LIFE IN JAPAN. little stuffed bags instead of sheep bones, which thechildren cannot get, as sheep are not used by…

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