Japanese Porcelain

THE arts of Japan have long appealed to the Western lover of the beautiful, but it is only during the last thirty years or so that a more general appreciation has spread from the cultured artist, such as Whistler, to the wider public. Fortunately for us, fine feeling in decoration does not need a scientific understanding to make it welcome. There is a subtler union and brother- hood than comes of knowledge alone. The appeal of the artist to the artistic is uni- versal and undefined, and since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, this vagueness is valuable. Lafcadio Hearn, who knew more than most men of the country in which he lived so long, has said : "Could you learn all the words in a Japanese dictionary, your acquisition would not help you in the least to make you understand in speaking, unless you had learned also to think backwards.

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JAPANESE PORCELAIN

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII