On Pastimes And Amusements of the Japanese

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On Pastimes And Amusements of the Japanese
Charlotte Maria Birch Salwey
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The home games and ;';>: e ^ " F*\ $ K V -V i 3 CHILDREN PLAYING WITH BALLS.
JAPAN SOCIETY : TRANSACTIONS, VOL. V. " ON PASTIMES AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE JAPANESE. " Sahvcy. [Plate III. ] ( 85 ) playthings, cheap and charming, must likewise be described on another occasion ; folding paper in form of bird and beast and flower ; shadows that clever fingers can manipulate into wonderful semblance of familiar forms ; all these go to make up the sum total of that synonym Japan has earned as the Childre
...n's Paradise, where tears are hardly known, and light laughter echoes all day long like the rippling waves of a far-off summer sea.
Proceeding to describe special out-of-door recreations, we come to the floating fan-and-cup game, particularly favoured by the Court nobles and ladies of Japan. The party assembled by the river, where each member launched upon the water a fan of special make prepared with varnish or lacquer to ensure buoy- ancy, and then set it free to be the sport of the stream. While the fan was thus jeopardized, the owner had to compose a verse or couplet of poetry before it regained terra fir ma.


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