Mythological Japan : the symbolisms of mythology in relation to Japanese art, with illustrations drawn in Japan, by native artists (1902)
Otto, Alexander Francis, b. 1873 · Philadelphia : Drexel Biddle · leaf 58
supposed tenderness and carein not treading on the most abjectworm, or injuring the tiniest plant. Its appearance on earth is re-garded as an omen of the birth ofthose who will become great andgood in the government of thepeople, and, like the Ho-Wo bird,it is conspicuous in Japanese artand… … 1 OUMAI-NI-UGUISU. [The Plum Tree and theNightingale.] When we remember that the ex-ceptionally early advent of theplum blossom, as flaky as snowdrops and quite as pure, means thefirst touch of Spring to the nature-loving Japanese, we wonder notthat the Plum Tree and Nightin-gale form a favorite…
Art, Japanese · Mythology, Japanese · Symbolism
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