Japan in art and industry. : With a glance at Japanese manners and customs (1893)
Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907 · London : Saxon · leaf 228
o harvest it. The leaves at the bottom are ofan inferior quality; they are picked twelve or fifteendays in advance and put by themselves. The choiceleaves benefit by this lopping off—i. e., those in themiddle. Those at the top, as well as the stems, like-wise yield a secondary quality. The drying… … METAL-PIPES, PIPE-CASES, AND POUCHES. the leaves are hung in a well-aired room; at theend of two weeks they are exposed for two or threedays to the sun, and for two nights to the dew 214 Smoking. in order that they may absorb a certain portionof humidity. Then it is straightened out, put up in…
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