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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 246

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 246
odd for one to get enthusiastic over so simplean affair as a trough and a few honest contrivances for washing BATHING CONVENIENCES. 207 the hands and face; nevertheless such a plain and sensiblearrangement is a relief, in contrast to certain guest-chambersat home, where one wishing to go through… … Fig. 186. — Lavatory in Private House. attenuated bottles, mugs, soap-dishes with rattling covers, anddiminutive top-lieavy pitchers crowded about his wash-basin,and all resting on a slab of white marble. Things are inevi-tably broken if they are brought down too hard upon such abottom. After such…

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