Studies in the decorative art of Japan . s a design ofgreat beauty and originality, a conventionalised pine tree. It is one of thoseknotted gnarled trees which grow on the fast-vanishing moats of Tokyo. Inspite of the treatment to which it has been subjected, all the features of itsrugged growth have been preserved, and have been bent into the circular formof the design. But this brings us to another peculiar feature of Japanesedecorative art, the use of the circle as a basis of design, which requires consid-eration in a special section. I conclude this section with a few examples of the adapt
Studies in the decorative art of Japan . s a design ofgreat beauty and originality, a conventionalised pine tree. It is one of thoseknotted gnarled trees which grow on the fast-vanishing moats of Tokyo. Inspite of the treatment to which it has been subjected, all the features of itsrugged growth have been preserved, and have been bent into the circular formof the design. But this brings us to another peculiar feature of Japanesedecorative art, the use of the circle as a basis of design, which requires consid-eration in a special section. I conclude this section with a few examples of the adaptation of floralforms to architectural purposes (plate 21). Fig. 4 shows the lotus leaf used asa rail support ; flg 3 is the common form of bronze capping to a newel of redlacquer. In fig. 5 the pointed ball is replaced by an inverted lotus flower,which makes a cap of neat beauty. In fig, 2 the flower is treated more formally,in gilded brass on a newel of black lacquer ; and in tig. 1, the same form isused still further Pine Iree highly conventionalized.(Design for wall-paper.)
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