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Excerpt from The Noyes Collection of Japanese Prints, Drawings, Etc A study of the many-sided Japanese character develops sharp contrasts at every turn. A visit to Japan in time of peace gives the impression of agentle, refined, light-hearted, artistic, peaceable, pleasure-loving, rather frivolous people, with a passionate love for flowers, fine scenery, and all that is beautiful in nature; nice and dainty in their tastes, carry ing their habits of personal and household cleanliness to the extreme, and spending a considerable portion of their time in enervating hot baths. Again, seen in their almost continuous round of festivals throughout the year, they seem to be holding a perpetual holiday. Another turn, and beholding them swarming in the rice fields, the tea plantations, the vegetable and flower gardens, the workshops, the fisheries, and the schoolrooms, and all Japan seems to be an industrial beehive, and every man, woman, and child at work or in study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.