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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London : Adams & Charles Black · leaf 142

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ustle of the largetown in which it may be situated. I am thinkingnow of one such garden in Kyoto; the eveningbell seems to call you to come within its sanctuary,and once there one would surely never leave untilthe final closing of its great outer wooden doorsends the loiterer away. It has an… … TEMPLE GARDENS 75 fabulous Garden of Paradise. One enters its outerprecincts through one of those solid wooden gate-ways which seem so fitting to guard their charge,wood guarding wood, for remember all temples aremade of wood in Japan; though many differentkinds may be used, and the rarer and…

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