Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 292
stork (which ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 273 is said to live a thousand years) of long life. In Japan a deadstork is as rare as a dead donkey is here. The tortoise is anotheremblem of longevity, for it is said to have a thousand lives, andanotlier is the peach, for a man who lived for nine hundred… … Fig. 113.—Dish made in Tokio. saw but one living specimen of this bird. Owing to the numberlessrepresentations of them which we see on Japanese works, I usedto think that storks must be almost as common in Japan assparrows are in England ; but this proved to be a great mistake.The Japanese are also…
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