Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 290
hild, and there is a simplicity about their manners which has allthe frankness of infancy. Indeed, we have here the charm ofchildhood preserved in grown man. This being the case, we mustlook for the expression of humour in their art, whenever oppor-tunity occurs ; and humour and grotesqueness are… … Fig. III.—Pattekn of a printed Dress Fabric, con. SISTING OF THE LEAVES OF THE FIR-TREE, RAKES,BROOMS, AND DIAPER PATTERNS. 2/2 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, angles, holding on by his tentacles, while two were performingon musical instruments, and a fourth watched the performancefan in hand. The whole…
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