Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 142
ere a poem meets your eye with each stepyou take ; and how pretty is every street corner, withits little shop, its mellow light and dainty arrangements,with the smiling face of some little child peeping outfrom the dim shadow beyond ! It is a terrible thing tolive in a country where art is the… … The Living Art passed into a room in the depths of winter and saw aquantity of those pretty fans, which in his country helpto modify the heat of the golden summer days, viciouslynailed, without rhyme or reason, upon a bright redwall, or those fairy-like umbrellas, upon which he hasseen the…
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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