. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. TJie Coxcomb Plant (Celasia Cristata).(From a Japanese Sketch.) 242 Nine Years in Nipon. serving this, I turned at once to a Japanese drawing, andfound the rendering to be quite correct and natural inthat respect. The bamboo is one of the greatest boons to sub-tropicaland even tropical man, and is devoted to an inconceivablenumber of uses. It is largely employed in Japanese art,and is capable of being turned about in all sorts of waysso as to yield every graceful variety of form. I had inmy bedroom a Japanese wall paper composed of
. Nine years in Nipon. Sketches of Japanese life and manners. TJie Coxcomb Plant (Celasia Cristata).(From a Japanese Sketch.) 242 Nine Years in Nipon. serving this, I turned at once to a Japanese drawing, andfound the rendering to be quite correct and natural inthat respect. The bamboo is one of the greatest boons to sub-tropicaland even tropical man, and is devoted to an inconceivablenumber of uses. It is largely employed in Japanese art,and is capable of being turned about in all sorts of waysso as to yield every graceful variety of form. I had inmy bedroom a Japanese wall paper composed of bamboosprays twining and curving so as apparently never to re-peat themselves, and the eye never tired of it. Sometimes the foliage effects are produced by singlestrokes for each blade. The subjoined sketch is boldly and. Bamboo. Japanese Art in Relation to Nature. 243 effectively brought out by swift continuous strokes, the pencil hardly being lifted from the paper. One of the greatest feats an artist can perform is to draw, say, a horse at the gal-lop, with flowing mane andwaving tail, with one dip of hispencil in a given number ofdistinct strokes—the fewer themore wonderful the achieve-ment. Here, in another style ofexecution, is a sketch ofthe same beneficent is some attempt to indi-cate shading, and the veiningI of the leaves is shown simplybut quite as effectively as needbe. The stunted twigs, thelines of fracture of the thickmain stem, the varying lengthsof the internodes, and thenibbled blades, are all quitecharacteristic and true tonature. Another favourite plant isthe cherry tree, and from theearliest times it has figured asAnother Sketch of Bamhoo. ^ chicf omamcnt on various articles of furniture. This is a modern specimen, by Shunzan, in his charac-teristic style :— KALEVIMA
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