The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-12

pecially true Of its development in art as
represented in painting, sculpture, enamel
ing and lacquer work. Among all the
eastern nations in trip around the world
l have seen nothing that compares with 1t.
The beginnings rs of all things Japanese |
except cleanliness may be traced to China |
through Corea, but the original has been |
immensely improved upon until Japan
stands alone in the character of her pro
ductons and the independence of her
schools.
Pictures are before me while | write, the
mere outlines of which in their strength,
directness and deicacy of Repression would
attract attention in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. There may be a disregard
of the laws of perspective, but so faultlessly
accurate are the natural details that have
been patiently worked in that the picture
is apt to command a favorite place on your
wall or in your album. 1t has been tersely
said that japanese art is great in small
things, but small in great things The
artists are the Raphaels of birds and fishes
and insects and flowers, of bamboo stems
swaying in the breeze and fragments of
idealized scenery. Upon small surfaces
their decorations are indescrbably beauti-
full.
This sense of beauty is particularly EN-
phasized in their culture of flowers and
gardens The whole population turns out
several times in the year for no other pur-
pose than to visit places that are noted for
certain kinds Of blossoms, and no visitor
has seen Japan at its best until he has at
tended one or more of these charming
flower festivals around which revolve the
national holiday markings of the people
Thus the cherry tree is cultivated not for
its fruit, but for its blossom, and it has al
ways been to Japan what the rose is to
western nations The chrysanthemum is
another favorite flower, and at the proper
season in Toxic one may see it worked into
all sorts of shapes-men aud gods, boats,
bridges, castles, etc. The variety is amaz-
ing.
Some of the blossoms are immense, larger
across than the span of mans hand. Some
are like large snowballs, the petals all
smooth and turned in, one on top of the
other. Others resemble the tousled head
of Scotch terrier or have long filaments
stretched out like a starfish. The stran-
gest thing of all is to see five or six kinds of
various colors and sizes growing together
on the same plant-a nosegay with only
one stem, the result of iudicious grating
OF the same kind of blossoms as many as
600 have been known to be produced on one
plant In other cases the whole energy of
a plant is made to concentrate on IA single
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during the seven months that precede the
period of blossOming
Triumphs of another kind are obtained
in the composition of bouquets, which in
Japan has been made an art, not to say a
science, in which the philosophy of color is
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amnlas are small and aagnrIy souC,bt
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+itnde rat no other nation ever ,,rderstood
half so wen how, ia twist a snrav of foyy
orc into art istic line and introduce here AND
there deIigbtfnl little hits of ornamental
tion ON which the eve loves to dwell
The ordinary .Tonanese bouse is a ligbt
frameyvor. structure v,ithout foundation
IT, stands on the Ground. not in if. like ON,
own The side is composed of wooden slid
inc doors that arc slowed away in hove
during the DAYTIME. In summer every
thing is TINS onened to the outside air /,
winter the wood is renlaced Inv half trans
narent slides Paper, by the way. answer
a Thousand purposes. from AN umbrella q
rain coat to broom or a table napkin
The rooms are divided from each other b,
turn several rooms into one. The floor o
the hVlnG rooms + covered WIN Inlch mat