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The flowers and gardens of Japan (1908)

Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella, ill · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 47

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Buddhist god, and its eight small attendants, the Children Stones, are among the more importantfeatures of the cascade or waterfall. The Island Stones are perhaps more interestingstill, as they are such important features in the land-scape. The Elysian Isle, the Masters Isle,and the Guests Isle are… … STONES—ORNAMENTS AND FENCES 23 the different members of a tortoises body, anda pine-tree of carefully trained form should grow,as it were, out of the back of the animal.The * Masters Isle has three principal stones—the * Stone of Easy Rest, which speaks foritself; the Stone of Amusement, suggesting…

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