Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 564
putting his tongueupon it to test its quality. At last a plank was foundthat was declared to be berry number one, and thegreat undertaking, the work of carving it, began. Fivemen were at work on it for five months. And nowthat it is completed and fixed in my chrysanthemumhall, it is a triumph! It… … Workers had once been a metal-worker, he was an excellentjudge of gongs and undertook to choose one forme. Before that day I had no notion that therecould be such a vast difference in gongs. We wentto about twenty or thirty stores in Osaka, at each ofwhich several gongs were produced for our…
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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