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English: From original book: " In summer another kind of frame may be substituted in the fusuma, termed a yoshi-do, in which a kind of rush called yoshi takes the place of paper; the yoshi is arranged in a close grating through which the air has free access and a little light may enter. The fusuma may be entirely composed of yoshi and the appropriate frame-work to hold it. One of this kind is represented in fig. 104. The lower portion consists of a panel of dark cedar, in which are cut or perforated the figures of bats; above this panel are transverse bars of light cedar, and filling up the border of the frame is a close grating of brown reeds or rushes placed vertically; at the top is a wide interspace crossed by a single root of bamboo. The yoshi resembles miniature bamboo, the rods being the size of an ordinary wheat-straw, and having a warm brown tint. This is employed in many ways in the decoration of interiors, and the use of so fragile and delicate a material in house-finish is one of the many indications of the quiet and gentle manners of the Japanese."
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Source https://www.kellscraft.com/JapaneseHomes/JapaneseHomesCh03.html
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Edward S. Morse  (1838–1925)  wikidata:Q2519303 s:en:Author:Edward Sylvester Morse
 
Edward S. Morse
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Edward Sylvester Morse; E. S. Morse
Description American anthropologist, art historian, zoologist, malacologist, archaeologist and curator
Date of birth/death 18 June 1838 Edit this at Wikidata 20 December 1925 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Portland Edit this at Wikidata Salem Edit this at Wikidata
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