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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 44

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 44
arance of some of these village streets on a rainynight. No brightly-lighted window cheers the traveller; only APPEARANCE OF CITY AND VILLAGE. 5 dim lines of light glimmer through the chinks of the woodenshutters with which every house is closed at night. On pleasantevenings when the paper screens… … Pig. 3. — View of Enoshima. (Copied from a Photograph.) In the cities the quarters for the wealthier classes are notso sharply defined as with us, though the love for pleasantoutlooks and beautiful scenery tends to enhance the value ofcertain districts, and consequently to bring together the…

Architecture, Japanese · Japan -- Social life and customs

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