Category: Travel Writing
FACING PAGE 2. An Actor 2 3. Watching the Play 4 4. The Bill of the Play 6 5. A Garden 8 6. The Road to the Temple 10 7. The Street with the Gallery 12 8. Sun and Lanterns 14 9. Summer Afternoon 16 10. Apricot-Blossom Street 18 11. Outside Kioto 20 12. A Blond Day 22 13. A Bli...
It was with a view to decorating my newly-built London house that I paid a second visit to Japan, being convinced that it was possible to handle the labour there at a cheaper ra...
2. Chapter 2I always agree with that man who said, "Let me make the nation's songs and I care not who frames her laws," or words to that effect, for, in my opinion, nothing so well indicate...
4. Chapter 4The methods of painters all over the world are very much alike. In fact, the methods of great masters (no matter of what nationality, and whether of this period or of centuries...
3. Chapter 3A Japanese authority has boasted that the only living art of to-day is the art of Japan; and the remark is not so much exaggerated as it may appear at first sight to the Europea...
10. Chapter 10A cluster of little Japanese children at play somehow suggests to me a grand picture-gallery, a picture-gallery of a nation. Every picture is a child upon which has been expende...
5. Chapter 5In Japan there is no such thing as accident. A scene which in its beauty and perfect placing appears to the visitor to be the result of Nature in an unusually generous mood, has...
6. Chapter 6Throughout this book I have talked of Japan purely from the artistic standpoint. I have talked principally of the living art of the country and of its exquisite productions, and...
9. Chapter 9With all their practical gifts--which, as one of themselves has remarked, will enable them to beat the world with the tips of their fingers--and all the power of assimilating an...
8. Chapter 8One of the chief characteristics of the Japanese, which especially distinguishes them from Europeans, is their intense fondness for flowers--not the fondness which many English...
12. Chapter 12Perhaps one of the most admirable features in the character of the Japanese is their great power of self-control. The superficial observer on his first visit to Japan, because o...
7. Chapter 7It is not easy to describe the fascination of a Japanese garden. Chiefly it is due to studied neglect of geometrical design. The toy summer-houses dotted here and there, the min...
1. Chapter 1FACING PAGE 2. An Actor 2 3. Watching the Play 4 4. The Bill of the Play 6 5. A Garden 8 6. The Road to the Temple 10 7. The Street with the Gallery 12 8. Sun and Lanterns 14 9....