Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 480
he centre. On the end opposite to the pestle a man stands ;thus the pestle is raised : but by his jumping off the pestle falls.By this repeated stepping on the end and jumping off the processof husking the rice is accomplished. In the corner of a field I once saw one of these mills with a ART, AND… … Fig. 201.—Humorous 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…
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