Japan in art and industry. : With a glance at Japanese manners and customs (1893)
Régamey, Félix, 1844-1907 · London : Saxon · leaf 99
84 Nahiral Products and Manufactures. help in the work and to make up for the inadequacyof equipment. Ingenious in everything, they have devised acurious method whereby one man can carry fourbeams with least expense of effort. One of themserving to support the others leans upon the mansshoulder; a… … MAKING WOODEN SHOES. one serving to sustain the others, so that the wholeis kept in perfect equilibrium. It is Paulownia wood, whereof are made theguefas, those bizarre sabots, so high that it is a puzzlehow anyone can walk in them without falling. Theyare always left at the interior door of the…
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