Chapter

 1 1|       influence. No student of Japanese culture could ever ignore
 2 1| Chinese sobriety as stupidity, Japanese patriotism as the result
 3 2|     tea of teas. ~It is in the Japanese tea ceremony that we see
 4 3|      wrestling. Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence, owes
 5 4|        brick construction, our Japanese method of building with
 6 4|       degree that the ordinary Japanese interior of the present
 7 4|   smaller than the smallest of Japanese houses, while the materials
 8 4|       the place of honour in a Japanese room where paintings and
 9 4|       an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition
10 4|  converted into a museum. To a Japanese, accustomed to simplicity
11 4|     The absence of symmetry in Japanese art objects has been often
12 4|      the room. ~Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration
13 5|       heroine. Chikamatsu, our Japanese Shakespeare, has laid down
14 5|        veneration in which the Japanese held the work of the great
15 6|     still extant in one of the Japanese monasteries [Sumadera, near
16 6|       the place of honour in a Japanese room. Nothing else will
17 6|        in death--certainly the Japanese cherry blossoms do, as they
18 7|       known to all students of Japanese pottery. many of our textile