JAPAN
Reading edition
OTHER BEAUTIFUL BOOKS ON JAPAN EACH CONTAINING FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
ANCIENT TALES AND FOLK-LORE OF JAPAN BY R. GORDON SMITH, F.R.G.S. 57 ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAPANESE ARTISTS
THE FLOWERS AND GARDENS OF JAPAN DESCRIBED BY FLORENCE DU CANE 50 ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELLA DU CANE
“JAPAN” In the “Peeps at Many Lands and Cities” Series BY JOHN FINNEMORE 12 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
PEEPS AT THE HISTORY OF JAPAN BY JOHN FINNEMORE 8 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND NUMEROUS LINE DRAWINGS IN THE TEXT
Published By Adam & Charles Black, 4, 5 and 6 Soho Square, London, W.
MISS POMEGRANATE
JAPAN · A RECORD IN COLOUR BY MORTIMER MENPES · TRANSCRIBED BY DOROTHY MENPES · PUBLISHED BY ADAM & CHARLES BLACK · SOHO SQUARE · LONDON · W.
Published December 1901 Reprinted May 1902, January 1903, January 1904 January 1905
TO MY FRIEND
THE LADY EDWARD CECIL
TO WHOSE ENTHUSIASTIC SYMPATHY
MY WORK IN JAPAN
OWES SO MUCH OF THE SUCCESS
IT HAS ATTAINED
Note
In this book I endeavour to present, with whatever skill of penmanship I may possess, my father’s impressions of Japan. I trust that they will not lose in force and vigour in that they are closely intermingled with my own impressions, which were none the less vivid because they were those of a child,—for it was as a child, keenly interested in and enjoying all I saw, that I passed, four or five years ago, through that lovely flower-land of the Far East, which my father has here so charmingly memorialised in colour.
DOROTHY MENPES
November 1901.
Contents
CHAPTER I
PAGE
Art and the Drama 1
CHAPTER II
The Living Art 29
CHAPTER III
Painters and their Methods 49
CHAPTER IV
Placing 75
CHAPTER V
Art in Practical Life 91
CHAPTER VI
The Gardens 105
CHAPTER VII
Flower Arrangement 113
CHAPTER VIII
The Geisha 123
CHAPTER IX
Children 135
CHAPTER X
Workers 151
CHAPTER XI
Characteristics 199
List of Illustrations
1. Miss Pomegranate Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2. An Actor 2
3. Watching the Play 4
4. The Bill of the Play 6
5. A Garden 8
6. The Road to the Temple 10
7. The Street with the Gallery 12
8. Sun and Lanterns 14
9. Summer Afternoon 16
10. Apricot-Blossom Street 18
11. Outside Kioto 20
12. A Blond Day 22
13. A Blind Beggar 24
14. The Giant Lantern 26
15. Sun and Lanterns 32
16. The Scarlet Umbrella 36
17. Leading to the Temple 38
18. By the Light of the Lanterns 40
19. “News” 42
20. A Sunny Temple 44
21. On the Great Canal, Osaka 46
22. After the Festival 52
23. The Lemon Bridge 54
24. Bearing a Burden 58
25. The End of the Day and the End of the Festival 60
26. In Front of the Stall 62
27. The Stall by the Bridge 64
28. Archers 68
29. Reflections 72
30. The Red Curtain 78
31. Flower of the Tea 80
32. A Street in Kioto 82
33. Heavy-laden 84
34. Peach-Blossom 88
35. The Tea-house of the Slender Tree 94
36. Blossom of the Glen 96
37. A Family Group 100
38. The Venice of Japan 102
39. An Iris Garden 108
40. A Sunny Garden 110
41. Iris Garden 112
42. A Wistaria Garden 116
43. Flower-placing 118
44. Wistaria 120
45. Butterflies 126
46. Daughters of the Sun 128
47. By the Light of the Lantern 130
48. A Street Scene, Kioto 132
49. Baby and Baby 138
50. A Jap in Plum-colour 140
51. Sugar-water Stall 142
52. Advance Japan 144
53. Chums 146
54. A Sunny Stroll 148
55. The Child and the Umbrella 150
56. A Little Jap 154
57. A By-canal 156
58. Swinging along in the Sun 158
59. A Metal-worker 160
60. Bronze-workers 162
61. In Theatre Street 164
62. The Carpenter 166
63. Making up Accounts 168
64. Finishing Touches 170
65. A Back Canal, Osaka 172
66. Stencil-makers 174
67. A Sign-painter’s 178
68. A Cloisonné Worker 180
69. A Toy-shop 182
70. A Sweet-stuff Stall 184
71. A Canal in Osaka 188
72. Umbrellas and Commerce 190
73. Playfellows 194
74. Youth and Age 202
75. Lookers-on 204
ART AND THE DRAMA
AN ACTOR