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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 346

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 346
bove,a common form is a square wooden bucket,or one made out of pottery or bronze in imi-tation of this form. Bamboo cut in hori-zontal forms is also used for suspended flower-holders. Indeed,there seems to be no end of curious objects used for this pur-pose,— a gourd, the semi-cylindrical tile,… … Fig. 296. Cheap Bracket fob Flower-pots. 308 JAPANESE HOMES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. sketched at the National Exposition at Tokio in 1877. Itsconstruction was very ingenious; three staves of the lowerbucket were continued upward to form portions of .three smallerbuckets above, and each of these, in…

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