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 Japanese women are simply glad to appear overdressed for the occasion as they never dress enough in their daily life.

There is no other way to cure the soul’s illness except by the senses; again there is no other way to cure the senses except by the power of spirit. But what shall happen when you attempt to cure the spirit with the spirit, the senses with the senses; there will be only ruin for the result.

Indeed the Japanese monotony is unbearable. But wisdom will soon teach us it would be only the just proper way to escape from monoteny that we bind or assimilate ourselves with it.

“Ugliness is still supposed in Japan to be the virtue, the greatest virtue in the world.

It is poor Japanese art when it begins with climax and ends with exclamation as in some work of Hokusai or many later Ukiyoye artists. But when the art is high and noble Rh