The furniture was lacqueredblue and white under designs in silver filigree, and everywhere lay such numbers of white bearskins that they hid the carpet.
There were no pictures, no decorations, merely this green and black background, relieved by occasional splashes of vermilion, and leading up to a great lacquered screen of the same hue which obscured a door at the further end of the room.
On each of these rested a lacqueredbowl of Chinese red, obviously for the receipt of cigarette ashes.
It had red lacquered walls, and the back wall was looking-glass.
She held out a lacquered salver for money, presumedly for religious purposes, and on receiving the same she commenced a series of gyrations worthy of the whirling dervishes of Cairo.
Well made, substantial lacquered ware takes the place of nearly all other for domestic utensils.
They stopped work for about twenty-five minutes at meridian, and were served each with a bowl of rice and fish, which they dispatched with chopsticks, then drank a lacquered bowl of hot tea.
Among these was the renowned temple of Shiba, which is over six centuries in age, composed of numerous kiosk-like buildings, looking more like immense lacquered jewel cases than anything else.
All persons, foreigners or natives, took off their shoes before entering upon their delicately-lacquered or polished floors.
Tucked into the red state coat appear a half-spread fan and some folded sheets of paper, and at the back is seen a quiver made of lacquered wood.
Lacquered boxes, sometimes of great beauty, containing india ink and inkstone, brushes, rolls of paper.
The hammered brass, the lacquered and polished wood, and the superb ceilings add much to the beauty of the homes of the rich.
The Japanese told me his crown is a black lacquered cap, of an inverted bell shape.
She tied up a little lacquered box full of boiled rice and snails for his journey, wrapped it round with a silk napkin, and putting his extra clothes in a bundle, swung it on his back.
I have seen a mother with a sick child shake the curiously lacquered box of sticks which the priest of a temple has in his charge, hoping to get help.
We may go as far as the poet in confessing intellectual impotence, and roundly call the knowledge of man "lacquered ignorance.
Because knowledge is never complete, it is always mere lacquered ignorance; and man's apparent intellectual victories are only conquests in a land of unrealities, or mere phenomena.
The cupola and minarets were covered with a green-lacquered tile, most of which is now pealed off.
He covered the cupola of the tomb itself with gold plates (instead of the lacquered tiles which he removed), and he is said to spend one hundred thousand tomauns annually, in the embellishments of these monuments.
The Mesjid Shah or Royal Mosque is still a noble building, if I might judge from its outside; although the lacquered tiles on the dome are in many places falling off.
Close to the road is the tomb of one of the inferior saints of Persia, with a pyramidical roof covered with green-lacquered tiles.
Its cupola is covered with green-lacquered tiles of a semi-circular form, which, fitted in close lines, give a symmetrical appearance of ribs to its shining surface.
But the cupola is falling into decay, the lacquered tiles, on its exterior surface, are all peeling off, and the minarets can no longer be ascended, for the stairs are all destroyed.
The front of the principal gate is inlaid with green lacquered tiles and neat cut bricks.
Three of the gates are ornamented with pillars, inlaid with green-lacquered bricks, and look very respectable; the other five are very small and mean.
The great architrave was of Moresque work of a dark-blue-lacquered tile.
The domes of the mosques are a field of green or sometimes blue-lacquered tiles, with ornaments in yellow, blue, and red: the inscriptions are in the same colours.
Othello-like, he scowled after that unconscious Cassio as the other passed into the club in his lacquered boots.
Among the superior black lacquered articles, especially with flat or raised gold ornaments, I observed some, which were worthy of a place in the most valuable collections of objects of vertu.
A stone fireplace, ready for lighting, had iron dogs and fender, and a screenlacquered in flowery wreaths on a slender black stem.
Jasper Penny and Graham were smoking long, fragrant cigars that the former had produced from a lacquered case, and Jannan had the ingredients of the hot punch at his elbow.
A row of small black-lacquered tables extended down each side, and chairs were set for the Japanese as well as the foreigners.
The Mikado's black-lacquered palanquin (horen) was to us a curious novelty.
A fresh tray was brought in with a large lacquered bowl for rice, and a couple more containing soups, accompanied almost invariably by the fish of ceremony called sea-bream, and the bigger it was the greater the honour.
Higashi-Kuze sent me a complimentary letter, regretting my departure, and presenting me with a big lacquered cabinet as a mark of the Mikado's appreciation of all I had done to smooth diplomatic relations.
Mitford and I sat on white brocade cushions at the head of the room, with a big lacquered brazier between us; the Japanese guests were ranged along both sides of the room and at the end.
On a dais at the extreme end sat the Mikado, under a canopy supported by black-lacquered poles, and with the blinds rolled up as high as was possible.
The Miya was dressed in the same costume as the other court nobles we had seen, a purple silk robe (kari-ginu) and a small black-lacquered wrinkled hat perched on the top of the head.
Sanjo and Higashi-Kuze, who had on white maedare and black-lacquered paper caps, declined.
We called first on Yamashina no Miya, who was very affable and jolly, his dirty beard shaved off, and his teeth dyed black in correct style; he was dressed in the costume called noshi, and wore the tiny black lacquered hat as before.
At one side of the apartment stood a kind of low altar, supporting a butsudan, whose tiny lacquered doors, left open, showed a mortuary tablet within, before which a lamp was burning between offerings of wild flowers.
And in the farthest nook of the cemetery I find, before one very humble tomb, a pretty zen or lacquered dining tray, covered with dishes and bowls containing a perfect dainty little Japanese repast.
Besides these, the household shrines of Shinto, may occasionally be seen massive shrines of precious wood, lacquered and gilded, worth from three hundred even to fifteen hundred yen.
The lacquered services are laid upon the matting before them by maidens whose bare feet make no sound.
One within the other--like the little lacqueredboxes of an inro?
A little bell-tower, lacquered red, stands near the other entrance, to which I pass.
That one has its wall and high fence all lacquered red, and a gateway also red and spotted with yellow and gray mosses.
We took off our shoes, and ascended the bronze-covered steps of the oratory and shrine, which come down from the red-lacquered veranda, behind the four carved white pillars of the descending porch.
They are gilded; their jaws are lacquered red far down into their throats, against which their white teeth glitter.
I should like to describe the temple ceilings, in which are set the lacquered coffers of the war junk of Taiko, or of the state carriage of his wife.
Along its upper edge runs the red-lacquered wall, heavily roofed, of the cloister which surrounds the farther court above.
Some one knocked lightly on the white-lacquered door.
Behind this screen the cylindrical lacquered coffin is placed, a most necessary precaution, for Chinese devils being fortunately unable to go round a corner, the occupant of the coffin is thus safe from molestation.
Have ready some large glass jars, withlacquered tin covers.
The covers of lacquered tin, that belong to glass jars, seldom fit perfectly tight, and are not to be trusted without another covering over them.
Hundreds of retainers, clad in all the colors of their feudal days, were gathered about the tents, and on the beach stood as many soldiers, glittering in their lacquered armor.
After greetings the two boys handed the box to the negro guards, who opened the scarlet cloth envelope and the gold-hinged rosewood cases, and laid the President's letter on a lacquered stand brought from Yedo.
The governor of Uraga himself, with a retinue of servants, all clad in embroidered gowns and lacquered helmets, and each carrying two swords, went out to the flag-ship next morning.
The master of ceremonies, stiff and important, in a faultless gray garment bearing a samurai crest, stands by and wields the fiddle-shaped lacquered insignia of his high office, and utter his orders and decisions in an authoritative voice.
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