. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. panese art, that my only apology for the few pages which follow is thehope I have of inducing a still wider circle tobecome interested in the problems it has doneso much both to suggest and to solve. We allknow the painful effect produced upon ourminds when lying sick, by the wall paperpattern of our bed-room transforming itselfinto a series of faces. Those faces are after alloften objective realities ; the pattern designer hasbetrayed the decadence of his art, for his fanciful designsare not unfrequently the descendants of earlier
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. panese art, that my only apology for the few pages which follow is thehope I have of inducing a still wider circle tobecome interested in the problems it has doneso much both to suggest and to solve. We allknow the painful effect produced upon ourminds when lying sick, by the wall paperpattern of our bed-room transforming itselfinto a series of faces. Those faces are after alloften objective realities ; the pattern designer hasbetrayed the decadence of his art, for his fanciful designsare not unfrequently the descendants of earlier and higherattempts to portray the human face divine. Common asthis later phase of degraded or conventional art is in mostcountries, it is hardly to be detected in Japan at one solitary instance I have observed, at all events, isthis bit of carving on the end of a sort of towel rack, andthe exception tends to prove the rule, for the specimenwas obtained by a friend from an Aino who produced shall be happy to hear of other examples, and I suppose. Japanese Art in Relation to Nature. 239
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