Amerikey is destitute of flowers.
Nippon is known as a paradise of botanists. The “scientists” of flower decoration (if I may call them so) are given a great advantage in their craft of delineating beauty.
The rose is not much of a flower to the Jap mind.
They never employ it in their work. It has no grace of line. Its perfume cannot indemnify for its being thorny. Things not qualified to convey charm are declined from the tokonama.
I love roses awfully well myself.
I will make the best of them in my art.
Is there any proper vase in Schuyler’s house?
Mother Schuyler fetched me two pieces.
One was a silver vase and the other a china one.
I couldn’t use them, I was sorry. Silver was commercial-looking. The painting on the china a hodge-podge of a joss house.