Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 292
Fig. 114.—P.\TTERNOF A JaP.^NESE Towel. … ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 275 The satire of this design will be understood when it is remembered that the Japanese catch birds by darting at them a bamboo rod, on the end of which bird-lime has been placed. Those so-called fishing-rods, the joints of which blow out, and which are now so much sold…
Architecture -- Japan · Art -- Japan · Japan -- Description and travel
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