Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 348
the white ones take on an icypurity that seems unearthly in its transparency, andthey shine as with an internal light. Still a little later,and with the last rays of daylight, all the darker flowershave disappeared, and where a short time ago stooda proud bed of royal colour one can see only… … t&smmUBmml The Gardens changed to purple night—a purple only seen in Japan— the festoons of lanterns which illuminated thesummer-houses became of one colour with the land-scape, and then, as the night darkened to a deeperpurple, the lights changed to bright orange. It wouldbe impossible to put…
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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