Painting in the Far East : an introduction to the history of pictorial art in Asia especially China and Japan (1913)
Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 194
imself unable to move a step, and the commander-in-chief could not mount his horse. Writing verses,drawing on fans, burning various kinds of incense,and improvising poems on the scented fumes, hawk-ing, football (in a less violent version of the gamethan our own) ; these were the only serious… … EARLY PAINTING IN JAPAN tions. When a pet cat had kittens, a court ladywas officially appointed to nurse it. Life was loadedwith ceremony, and elaborate decorum masked anentire indifference to morality. As high and stricta canon prevailed in all that belonged to mannersand accomplishments as in…
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