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Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories (1901)

Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883, Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed · Boston and New York, D.C. Heath & co. · leaf 64

An illustration from Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories, 1901, leaf 64 — Games. 47 long-sleeved, shaven-pated small fry. Still betterthan snow-balling, the lads like to make a snow-man, with a round charcoal ball for each eye, anda streak of charcoal for his mouth. This they callBuddhas squat follower Daruma, whose legsrotted off through his stillness over his… … Eye-Hiding, or Blimdmans Buff. As might be expected, some of the Japanesegames differ slightly from ours, or else are alto-gether peculiar to that country. The facilitywith which a Japanese child slips its shoes onand off, and the absence on the part of theparents of conventional or health scruples…

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