The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles- China (1901) (14784173415)

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Title: The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930
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Publisher: Boston : D. Estes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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AUTUMX FOLIAGE AT TAKI-XO-K\VA\VA. their beauty, and thus it was the custom each returning autumn to takefigures woven of silk tu tlie Shinto slirhie on the mountain, as an offeringof gratitude for the splendours of the forest at this season. Tliis causedthe great poet of that age, Michizane, who believed the gods ought to besatisfied with what nature had done for them, to exclaim: Tis hardly for poor lueTo bring a beggar.s gift, whenTamkeyama spreads
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Kir.iKi i;i tA>i.AL)i;, mkko. JAPAN. 371 Miles of red maple damaskBefore the glad immortals. The Japanese express their inherent love and admiration for the maplein many ways, through maple picnics, and the introduction of maples inart and song ; and, more enduring than any of these, in their pictures andcarvings, their artistic weavings in costly robes, and drawings on rich winecups. But over these fair s^-mbols of beauty and brilliancy is the halo ofa light that is fading rather than the signification of endurance typified bythe pine and bamboo. A few days of brilliant reign in her matchlessfoliage, and the maple sends her magnificent glory away on the wings ofthe fickle winds, — which is ever the rule with the gay and fragile. The warp is hoar-frost and the woof is dew,Too frail, alas 1 the warp and the woof to be:For scarce the woods their damask robes endue,When, torn and soiled, they flutter oer the lea. CIIAPTPTv VIII. XIKKt) AXD ITS TEMPLES. UNTIL within a few 3ears the t