Japan
Little lacquer cups in boxes of light wood exquisitely made:
The swords of the samurai, with guards inlaid in patterns of silver and gold, which, once drawn, must be sheathed with honor or in the bodies of their bearers:
The children at evening, in their bright dresses, playing about the streets:
The stupid, lumpish faces of the women in the fishing villages:
The grotesque yet overwhelming dignity of the Ne dancers, masked and brilliant, declaiming before the painted pine of the background:
The tracks of ghost foxes through the woods where the boys hunt for mushrooms in the autumn:
The restraint of the tea ceremony:
The long swirl of the robes of the beauties of the Green Houses:
The farm girls with their kimono-skirts caught in their belts, planting young rice shoots knee-deep in the ooze of the terraces, thinking curiously, as they see their
The swords of the samurai, with guards inlaid in patterns of silver and gold, which, once drawn, must be sheathed with honor or in the bodies of their bearers:
The children at evening, in their bright dresses, playing about the streets:
The stupid, lumpish faces of the women in the fishing villages:
The grotesque yet overwhelming dignity of the Ne dancers, masked and brilliant, declaiming before the painted pine of the background:
The tracks of ghost foxes through the woods where the boys hunt for mushrooms in the autumn:
The restraint of the tea ceremony:
The long swirl of the robes of the beauties of the Green Houses:
The farm girls with their kimono-skirts caught in their belts, planting young rice shoots knee-deep in the ooze of the terraces, thinking curiously, as they see their