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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 226

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 226
l is always conveniently near, and oftenunder the same roof. An enormous quantity of water is usedin the kitchen of a Japanese house; and if the well is outside,then a trough is arranged beside the well, into which the wateris poured, and from this trough a bamboo spout conveys thewater into a big… … Fig. 168. — Kitchen Range. 188 JAPANESE HOMES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. Fig. 167 (page 186) gives a sketch of an old kitchen atKabutoyama in the western part of the province of Musashi.This kitchen is nearly three hundred years old, and. is the typeof a kitchen of a wealthy and independent Japanese…

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