Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London : Adams & Charles Black · leaf 98
its rival, the Golden Pavilion, though it never seems to have attained to the same splendour; but here the ex- Shogun and his boon companions, the philosopher Soami and Shuko the Nara priest, held their sesthetic revels. They may be said to have laid down the laws which raised the tea-ceremonial to… … LANDSCAPE GARDENS 47 distract a young and giddy Shogun from his debaucheries.It was taken up as a political weapon by the House ofTokugawa, and crystallised into its present adamantineform, becoming a social engine of the most powerful naturein its power of bringing all the nobles together.…
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