Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 540
ke cheap goodswhich we complain of as being made of bad materialthat chips and breaks and becomes useless in a dis-tressingly short space of time. The Japanese havelost the art of creating the fine old lacquer that theyused formerly, we say. But it is not so at all ; itis purely a question of time.… … Workers lacquer as they did in the days when they worked forthe love of their work alone for purchase by theirfellow-countrymen. Practical proof of this can befound in the fact that all the doors in my Londonhouse, which are composed of the best lacquer, twentyor thirty coats thick, and have been…
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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