The Living Age, Volume 244E. Littell & Company, 1905 |
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... Kyoto , the ancient capital of the Mikados , unspoiled by Western in- fluences , as though separated from the external world by her purple chain of guardian hills , remains the heart and centre of Old Japan . The province of Yamato was ...
... Kyoto , the ancient capital of the Mikados , unspoiled by Western in- fluences , as though separated from the external world by her purple chain of guardian hills , remains the heart and centre of Old Japan . The province of Yamato was ...
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... Kyoto attracted the en- tire resources of the empire , which consecrated art , genius , and wealth to the service of religion . All the rocky slopes of Maruyama are holy ground , and the further hills bristle with gray temples , red ...
... Kyoto attracted the en- tire resources of the empire , which consecrated art , genius , and wealth to the service of religion . All the rocky slopes of Maruyama are holy ground , and the further hills bristle with gray temples , red ...
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... Kyoto are legion , and only a brief notice can be given of those to which some special interest is attached in this city of ancient faith . Beyond the curiously shaped Specta- cle Bridge over a broad lotus - pool , a stone monument ...
... Kyoto are legion , and only a brief notice can be given of those to which some special interest is attached in this city of ancient faith . Beyond the curiously shaped Specta- cle Bridge over a broad lotus - pool , a stone monument ...
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... Kyoto are ablaze with colored lanterns ; the sacred pony of the tutelary god is ridden by the Shinto High Priest ; long banners , red , yellow , and green , wave in the wind as their bearers dance in wild gyra- tions , the bamboo poles ...
... Kyoto are ablaze with colored lanterns ; the sacred pony of the tutelary god is ridden by the Shinto High Priest ; long banners , red , yellow , and green , wave in the wind as their bearers dance in wild gyra- tions , the bamboo poles ...
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... Kyoto tea- houses . The blue waters of Lake Biwa , so called from a fanciful resemblance to the long - nicked native guitar , were famous under another name , as sug- gesting those Eight Beauties of Omi , continually painted on screen ...
... Kyoto tea- houses . The blue waters of Lake Biwa , so called from a fanciful resemblance to the long - nicked native guitar , were famous under another name , as sug- gesting those Eight Beauties of Omi , continually painted on screen ...
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