Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 483
Sketch of a Man working a Rice Mill, who bv his energy hasjerked the fulcrum from its socket. act of raising upset the water, and thus let the pestle fall. Ahumorous native sketch of an energetic workman, who by hisexuberant energy has displaced the beam, is given in Fig. 201 ;and the delighted man… … FiQ. 202. —Rice ISIili, wokkeu by watek power, ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 465 have just said, is the only machine that I ever saw in Japan, yetthe productions of the country would lead us to infer thatmachinery of an advanced character must be common. Variousforms of water-wheels are known, but…
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