Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ation of moxas; a band of blind shampooerson their travels have gone astray at a ford, and are disputing in the midst of thewater as to the direction which they should take on reaching the opposite we have types of the begging friars; of fishing misadventures; scenes of femininejealousy and household (quarrels pushed to violent measures. There aie also verycomplete series of caricatures, such as the small troubles of life in the great world;the household of the fat man, and tlie household of the thin man; and the difierent U2 LIFE IN JAPAN. grimac
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ation of moxas; a band of blind shampooerson their travels have gone astray at a ford, and are disputing in the midst of thewater as to the direction which they should take on reaching the opposite we have types of the begging friars; of fishing misadventures; scenes of femininejealousy and household (quarrels pushed to violent measures. There aie also verycomplete series of caricatures, such as the small troubles of life in the great world;the household of the fat man, and tlie household of the thin man; and the difierent U2 LIFE IN JAPAN. grimaces which eau be formed by the human face. Aud the artists do not sparethemselves; for rapid painting, which is held in such esteem in Japan, is symbolizedunder the figure of an artist who is working with six brushes at once, two in eachluind and one between each great toe. The method which rendered Grandville so popular in his illustration of the fablesof La Fontaine is not unkm^wu to Japanese caricaturists. But their pencil is less. cabicatui:e of a donze. sparing; they only exceptionally reach to the dramatic energy of the human frequently they limit themselves to giving animals a costume, or an attitudewhich invests them witli a certain symbolic character. Tliis is the lower decree ofanthropomorphism. Such for example is the personification of tlie twelve signs of theZodiac—the mouse, the I)car, tlie tiger, tlie hare, the di-agou, the serpent, the horse,the ram, the monkey, the cock, the dog, and the wild boar—each adorned withvestments and attributes relating to their astronomical functions, or to the parts whichtbcy play in astrology. CARICATURES. 3i3 A sketch by Hoiksiii, no loss harmless, Imt wuav iinuising, represents a lico-warehouse in which rats, the most dreaded enemies of that precious cereal, formthe warehousemen. Nothing is missing in this pretty scene, from the cashiermaking liis calculations with Lis lend frrmo, to the f-alesnian turning over
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