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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella, ill · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 398

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would dispute it.Each great winter storm sweeping in from thePacific makes one or more of these toy islandscrumble and disappear; but the sea makes rapidmroads and hollows out fresh archways or freshtunnels, so very quickly a promontory breaks offand forms a new island, to be given a new fancyname,… … THE PINE-TREE 239 thousands of poets and how many kakemono;screens and fusuma have been adorned with theconventional views of Matsu-shima ; Oshima, deco-rated with its shrines and lanterns, and connectedwith the mainland by a slender bridge, half hiddenby the leaning trees, is perhaps the most…

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