Our country's flag and the flags of foreign countries (1898)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 184
us provinceswere governed by the daimios (like earls and countsin Europe), and each daimio maintained a court in hiscapital city. The great lords of Japan had learnedmen and artists in their train as well as soldiers, andcourtesy and chivalry were practiced everywhere. The Japanese warriors were as… … ^ 154 THE FLAGS OP FOREIGN NATIONS. Ages in Europe. But our own ancestors chose for theiremblems beasts of prey, like the lion and tiger, fiercebirds like the eagle, fabulous animals like the dragonor the wyvern. The Japanese, on the other hand,with their gentle and cultivated feeling for art…
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