Japan in art and industry. : With a glance at Japanese manners and customs (1893)
Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907 · London : Saxon · leaf 271
recious ball of crystal, emblem ofpurity and truth, from the attacks of a demon. As is evident, the theatre in Japan originated inmuch the same way as in France. Our mystic pro-cessions and mysteries, as celebrated in the churches 26o Manners and Customs, of the Middle Ages, transferred to the… … The marionettes, Joriiri and Ningyo Tsiikai, wereinvented at the commencement of the seventeenthcentury. To-day the facade of a Japanese theatre is deco-rated with lanterns, with streamers, and with largepictures in bright colours reproducing the principalscenes of the piece announced. Theatrical…
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