Contents

CHAPTER I
PAGE
Art and the Drama[1]
CHAPTER II
The Living Art[29]
CHAPTER III
Painters and their Methods[49]
CHAPTER IV
Placing[75]
CHAPTER V
Art in Practical Life[91]
CHAPTER VI
The Gardens[105]
CHAPTER VII
Flower Arrangement[113]
CHAPTER VIII
The Geisha[123]
CHAPTER IX
Children[135]
CHAPTER X
Workers[151]
CHAPTER XI
Characteristics[199]

List of Illustrations

1.Miss PomegranateFrontispiece
FACING PAGE
2.An Actor[2]
3.Watching the Play[4]
4.The Bill of the Play[6]
5.A Garden[8]
6.The Road to the Temple[10]
7.The Street with the Gallery[12]
8.Sun and Lanterns[14]
9.Summer Afternoon[16]
10.Apricot-Blossom Street[18]
11.Outside Kioto[20]
12.A Blond Day[22]
13.A Blind Beggar[24]
14.The Giant Lantern[26]
15.Sun and Lanterns[32]
16.The Scarlet Umbrella[36]
17.Leading to the Temple[38]
18.By the Light of the Lanterns[40]
19.“News”[42]
20.A Sunny Temple[44]
21.On the Great Canal, Osaka[46]
22.After the Festival[52]
23.The Lemon Bridge[54]
24.Bearing a Burden[58]
25.The End of the Day and the End of the Festival[60]
26.In Front of the Stall[62]
27.The Stall by the Bridge[64]
28.Archers[68]
29.Reflections[72]
30.The Red Curtain[78]
31.Flower of the Tea[80]
32.A Street in Kioto[82]
33.Heavy-laden[84]
34.Peach-Blossom[88]
35.The Tea-house of the Slender Tree[94]
36.Blossom of the Glen[96]
37.A Family Group[100]
38.The Venice of Japan[102]
39.An Iris Garden[108]
40.A Sunny Garden[110]
41.Iris Garden[112]
42.A Wistaria Garden[116]
43.Flower-placing[118]
44.Wistaria[120]
45.Butterflies[126]
46.Daughters of the Sun[128]
47.By the Light of the Lantern[130]
48.A Street Scene, Kioto[132]
49.Baby and Baby[138]
50.A Jap in Plum-colour[140]
51.Sugar-water Stall[142]
52.Advance Japan[144]
53.Chums[146]
54.A Sunny Stroll[148]
55.The Child and the Umbrella[150]
56.A Little Jap[154]
57.A By-canal[156]
58.Swinging along in the Sun[158]
59.A Metal-worker[160]
60.Bronze-workers[162]
61.In Theatre Street[164]
62.The Carpenter[166]
63.Making up Accounts[168]
64.Finishing Touches[170]
65.A Back Canal, Osaka[172]
66.Stencil-makers[174]
67.A Sign-painter’s[178]
68.A Cloisonné Worker[180]
69.A Toy-shop[182]
70.A Sweet-stuff Stall[184]
71.A Canal in Osaka[188]
72.Umbrellas and Commerce[190]
73.Playfellows[194]
74.Youth and Age[202]
75.Lookers-on[204]

ART AND THE DRAMA