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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 293

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 293
f a celebrated Kiyomidzu pot-ter in Kioto; and in the illustration of an old verandah at Kioto(fig. 227, page 244) is shown a Japanese in the act of washinghis hands. Taste and ingenuity are shown here, as elsewhere, in makingthis corner refined and artistic. Rare woods and expensive rock-work… … Fig. 239. — Chodzu-bachi. GATEWAYS. 255 The general neatness and cleanliness of the people are wellshown by the almost universal presence of the ehodzu-bachi, notonly in the houses and inns, but in the public offices in thebusiest parts of the city, — the railway station, to which hun-dreds throng,…

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