Japan in art and industry. : With a glance at Japanese manners and customs (1893)
Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907 · London : Saxon · leaf 29
H Japanese Art Work. laity, public schools for the children of the peoplewere not in existence. Yet nearly everybody knewhow to read and write the characters representing the ideas and objectsof common usage.In point of fact,about three thou-sand characters aretaught in theschools. A distin-guished… … know from eight toten thousand ofthem, and if onewants to pass for averitable savant hemust master sometens of thousands.Apart from a pho-netic writing, wehave the Kirakafia,invented, it is said,by the famous Bud-dhist priest KoobSDaishi, and a latersimplification thereof, which takes the name…
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