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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...now peeps out from the flowers. " Aha! " the ancient Darby said, chuckling, " you have given me a pretty young wife! Very good! Very good!" He felt that he was a fine figure of a man, after all! Of green pictures, painted at the moment when they are not green, there are many in this book, but of those whose intention it was to suggest repose and peace, undisturbed by the mental uplift of brighter colour, there are only two---that of a Buddhist temple garden at Kofu (page 126), and that of the Kuridani Temple at Kyoto (facing page 136). Nami-Kawa San's green garden at Kyoto (facing page 160), and the rock garden at Nikko (facing page 284), although green, are more properly classed with water and rock gardens. 1 I n-s Kaemp/en'. Some of the blooms were nearly a foot across. The colour, too, was a triumph of the grower, as a true pink is most diflicult of attainment, the flowers inclining always to mauves. But all the gardens are green sometimes, just as Nature is, and they linger in the memory constantly verdant and fresh, joyous with the spring and soothing with the summer, never sad with autumn, and steadfast with the winter. CHAPTER XI WATER GARDENS AND DRIED-UP WATER SCENERY " In the chill stillness of the first spring days, A double beauty does my garden take. What mystic paths, what purple wealth of bloom, That fairy garden shows there in the lake. Above the water long Wistaria sprays Lean down and look upon their pictured grace. Or is it that, below there, dim and cool, Another Fuji flower lifts up her face?" F the description ' Water Gardens ' included all those in which water--in appearance or reality--was a conspicuous feature, quite half the gardens in Japan would have to...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1151839388
- ISBN 13 9781151839381
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages66
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