Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and OthersK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 503 pages |
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... language wore a cue and two swords . This relic of feudalism now sleeps in Nirvana . His modern successor , fairly fluent in English , and dressed in a serviceable suit of dittos , might almost be a European , save for a certain ...
... language wore a cue and two swords . This relic of feudalism now sleeps in Nirvana . His modern successor , fairly fluent in English , and dressed in a serviceable suit of dittos , might almost be a European , save for a certain ...
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... language . Such are , for instance , Noto , the name of the big promontory stretching out into the Sea of Japan ( nottu means " promontory " in Aino ) , the Tonegawa , or River Tone , near Tōkyō ( tanne is Aino for " long " ) , and ...
... language . Such are , for instance , Noto , the name of the big promontory stretching out into the Sea of Japan ( nottu means " promontory " in Aino ) , the Tonegawa , or River Tone , near Tōkyō ( tanne is Aino for " long " ) , and ...
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... language is simple and harmonious . Its structure in great measure resembles that of Japanese ; but there are some few fundamental divergences , such , for instance , as the possession of true pronouns . The vocabulary , too , is quite ...
... language is simple and harmonious . Its structure in great measure resembles that of Japanese ; but there are some few fundamental divergences , such , for instance , as the possession of true pronouns . The vocabulary , too , is quite ...
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... language and in Chinese , and by playing chess , checkers , and various games of the " Mother Goose " description , of which sugoroku is the chief . Ever since the early days of foreign intercourse they have likewise had certain kinds ...
... language and in Chinese , and by playing chess , checkers , and various games of the " Mother Goose " description , of which sugoroku is the chief . Ever since the early days of foreign intercourse they have likewise had certain kinds ...
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... language has no genuine native word for " art . " To translate the European term fine art , " there has recently been invented the compound bi - jutsu , by putting together the two Chinese characters bi , " beautiful , " and jutsu ...
... language has no genuine native word for " art . " To translate the European term fine art , " there has recently been invented the compound bi - jutsu , by putting together the two Chinese characters bi , " beautiful , " and jutsu ...
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