Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 163
that people are beginning totalk of picnics ; but unfortunately the picnic season has not yetarrived. The favourite excursion for the merry-making peopleof Kioto, during the time of the cherry blossoming, is to Arashi-yama, a hill famous for its cherry-trees. As at Killarney youbuy objects of… … Fig. 45.—Wall in Kioto. The five parallel whitelines indicate that the building belongs to a personof royal blood. I ART. AND ART MANUFACTURES. 147 Picnicing is much enjoyed by the Japanese, and some of their-richest art and most careful workmanship is expended in theproduction of cases, boxes, and…
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