Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 114
paintfor the market—people who have been destroyed bythe British merchant and the American trader. Theyspend their time in painting pictures of flowers andbirds in vivid colourings that appeal to our tastes, solelyfor exportation to England and America. Apropos ofthis I must mention a conversation… … I The Living Art with black grounds and golden birds and fish on them.I told him I did not like them ; and he answered, Neither do we. Here in Japan we would not havethem in our houses ; but they are what the Englishand American markets demand. We ourselves neverbuy them ; we nearly always choose…
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