. The mikado's empire. THE THRONE AND THE NOBLES. 107. /V Japanese Farmer. (Seed-beds of rice protected from the birds by strings and slips of wood.)* overmeddlesome officialdom touches his land to transfer, sell, or re-divide it: then he rises as a rebel. In time of war, he is a disinter-ested and a passive spectator, and he does not fight. He changesmasters with apparent unconcern. Amidst all the ferment of ideasinduced by the contact of Western civilization with Asiatic within thelast two decades, the farmer stolidly remains conservative: he knowsnot, nor cares to hear, of it, and hates it
. The mikado's empire. THE THRONE AND THE NOBLES. 107. /V Japanese Farmer. (Seed-beds of rice protected from the birds by strings and slips of wood.)* overmeddlesome officialdom touches his land to transfer, sell, or re-divide it: then he rises as a rebel. In time of war, he is a disinter-ested and a passive spectator, and he does not fight. He changesmasters with apparent unconcern. Amidst all the ferment of ideasinduced by the contact of Western civilization with Asiatic within thelast two decades, the farmer stolidly remains conservative: he knowsnot, nor cares to hear, of it, and hates it because of the heavier taxesit imposes upon him. * In the above sketch by Hokusai, the farmer, well advanced in life, bent andbald, is looking dubiously over a piece of newly tilled land, perhaps just reclaim-ed, which he defends from the birds by the device of strings holding strips ofthin wood and bamboo stretched from a pole. With his ever-present bath-toweland headkerchief on his shoulders, his pipe held behind him, he stands in medi-tative attit
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