A happy experiment is the appearance in English of a number of Japanese Treasure Tales , with very well-chosen and artistic illustrations taken from Japanese ivories, bronzes, iron sword-guards, pouch mountings, wooden netsuk???s. The author clearly describes these stories as "explanations of the incidents which occur so frequently in the art treasures of Japan." Apart from valid artistic reasons, it is important that true knowledge of Japan should be disseminated in England. From the story of Ono-No-Komachi (9th century, ...
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A happy experiment is the appearance in English of a number of Japanese Treasure Tales , with very well-chosen and artistic illustrations taken from Japanese ivories, bronzes, iron sword-guards, pouch mountings, wooden netsuk???s. The author clearly describes these stories as "explanations of the incidents which occur so frequently in the art treasures of Japan." Apart from valid artistic reasons, it is important that true knowledge of Japan should be disseminated in England. From the story of Ono-No-Komachi (9th century, A.D.), who left hundreds of poems, we may extract the following verses from page 93: "While I was revelling In the thought of my beauty, The bloom of my youth Has faded away." "She is as lovely as Komachi," is the highest expression of admiration for a beautiful woman, even at the present day - and the lesson is surely not worn out with the centuries. - The Westminster Review , Volume 166 [1906]
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Very Good. N.d. (1906). Presumed first edition. Hardcover in olive green cloth lettered in gilt and with blindstamped design front cover. Edges uncut. 96 pp. Color frontispiece "The Ama and The Jewel" and 14 additional black and white plates with tissue guards in the text. Vey good, some waer to the extremities; light scattered foxing throughout the text. A collection of the origins of the tales whose themes and subjects appeared consistantly in antiquarian Japanese literature and legend.
