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1 Buddhi|              but bore its seeds long ago to blossom in the Syrian
2 Nara  |             period two hundred years ago, when sculpture was at its
3 Nara  |          nearly twelve hundred years ago. Glass goblets, enamelled
4 Meiji | simultaneously, a century and a half ago. The first began in an attempt
5 Meiji |              Mito, two hundred years ago. Such books gave expression
6 Meiji |            since more than a century ago, had been dawning on the
7 Vista |        dignity~and ethics which long ago made the word of her merchants