Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 450
d very popular, being much frequented for picnics.On this particular day there was going on one of thetwo important picnics or festivals of the year ; thegreat ground of the temple and the playground wereenclosed about with straw ropes on bamboo poles, toseparate one from another. It was a festival… … Children poppies. The scarlet in the petticoats was universally-repeated in neck and hair ; but their kimonos variedmuch, and were of almost every shade and textureof Japanese cloth and silk crepe imaginable. Therewere luminous greens, fawns, stripes, golden brownsshading into lemon-yellows,…
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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