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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 79

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es sliding on theice, coasting with sleds, building snow-forts and 62 Child-Life in Japan. fighting mimic battles with snow-balls, they makemany kinds of images and imitations of what theysee and know. In America the boys snow-manis a Paddy with a damaged hat, clay pipe inmouth, and the shillelah… … Daruma, the Snow-Image. images of Daruma are found by the hundreds intoy-shops, as tobacconists signs, and as the snow-men of the boys. Occasionally the figure of Geiho,the sage with a forehead and skull so high that aladder was required to reach his pate, or huge catsand the peculiar-shaped dogs…

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