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—Mr. B. A.H. [sic] Chamberlain, in "Things Japanese," calls it "an innocent, not to say insipid, little jeu de société, such as might suggest itself to a party of school girls." He can find no explanation of the vogue it enjoyed except that Japan was "in her childhood,—her second childhood."  —Vide "The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement" by Mr. J. Conder, an exhaustive and sympathetic work which clearly sets forth the principles and practice of the art, and from which many of the details here summarised are taken.  —The world of covetousness, the world of concupiscence, and the world without love.  —The full names of the bucolic mime and the monkey mime were respectively Den-gaku-no-Nô and Saru-gaku-no-Nô or the accomplishment of Den-gaku and of Saru-gaku; and since every feature distinctive of the original Den-gaku and Saru-gaku disappeared in the new development of the fourteenth century, it was natural that the names also should be abandoned.  —The descendants of these celebrated Nô dancers and writers called themselves "Kwanze" from generation to generation, a name formed by combining the two first syllables of Kwanami and Seami.  —A celebrated Chinese warrior who saved his sovereign's life by a splendid display of courage. The chorus compares Benkei to Hankai.  —A pilgrim who has made at least three previous pilgrimages, acts as pioneer of each band. 