Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944 · Boston : L. C. Page & co. · leaf 306
These jewel-incrusted bronzes have astory. On the hilt, handle, and scab-bard of the samurais swords from twoto twenty ornaments were embedded,wrought in metal, with the highest art ofthe metallurgist. After the issue of animperial edict in 1868, the use of swordswas suddenly abolished, and the… … Bronze Vase. THE ORNAMENTAL ARTS 243 were applied to bronzes, and the resultswere those quaint vases and jars, whichlook like the Holy Grails of someEastern legend. The noblest of Japanese crafts, purelynative in origin and development, is thatof lacquering. In the same way as Chinahas given its…
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