Japan in art and industry. : With a glance at Japanese manners and customs (1893)
Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907 · London : Saxon · leaf 238
bright,as to seem the surface of a piece of furniture. Apair of Turkish slippers present themselves—by wayof concession to European visitors—in the little ves-tibule to the left of the entrance to a corridor whichcompletely surrounds the apartments, as a ring doesa finger. This corridor becomes a… … bedchamber ; they are covered with white paper hav-ing the appearance of a dull white cloth. The basement is made of a network of slim leaves,of a white roseate wood, like the flesh of fruit, giving 2 24 Midori no Sato, the appearance of basket-work wrought with lovelyvelvety plants. We step within…
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