Chapter 1

CHARACTERISTICS 199

List of Illustrations

1. Miss Pomegranate _Frontispiece_

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 Blind Beggar 24 14. The Giant Lantern 26 15. Sun and Lanterns 32 16. The Scarlet Umbrella 36 17. Leading to the Temple 38 18. By the Light of the Lanterns 40 19. "News" 42 20. A Sunny Temple 44 21. On the Great Canal, Osaka 46 22. After the Festival 52 23. The Lemon Bridge 54 24. Bearing a Burden 58 25. The End of the Day and the End of the Festival 60 26. In Front of the Stall 62 27. The Stall by the Bridge 64 28. Archers 68 29. Reflections 72 30. The Red Curtain 78 31. Flower of the Tea 80 32. A Street in Kioto 82 33. Heavy-laden 84 34. Peach-Blossom 88 35. The Tea-house of the Slender Tree 94 36. Blossom of the Glen 96 37. A Family Group 100 38. The Venice of Japan 102 39. An Iris Garden 108 40. A Sunny Garden 110 41. Iris Garden 112 42. A Wistaria Garden 116 43. Flower-placing 118 44. Wistaria 120 45. Butterflies 126 46. Daughters of the Sun 128 47. By the Light of the Lantern 130 48. A Street Scene, Kioto 132 49. Baby and Baby 138 50. A Jap in Plum-colour 140 51. Sugar-water Stall 142 52. Advance Japan 144 53. Chums 146 54. A Sunny Stroll 148 55. The Child and the Umbrella 150 56. A Little Jap 154 57. A By-canal 156 58. Swinging along in the Sun 158 59. A Metal-worker 160 60. Bronze-workers 162 61. In Theatre Street 164 62. The Carpenter 166 63. Making up Accounts 168 64. Finishing Touches 170 65. A Back Canal, Osaka 172 66. Stencil-makers 174 67. A Sign-painter's 178 68. A Cloisonné Worker 180 69. A Toy-shop 182 70. A Sweet-stuff Stall 184 71. A Canal in Osaka 188 72. Umbrellas and Commerce 190 73. Playfellows 194 74. Youth and Age 202 75. Lookers-on 204

ART AND THE DRAMA