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By art I do not mean only painting and sculpture, but every kind of decoration, and most kinds of pictorial representation, the image on a boy's kite or a girl's battledore, not less than the design upon a lacquered casket or enamelled vase, the figures upon a workman's towel not less than the pattern of the girdle of a princess, the shape of the paper-dog or the wooden rattle bought for a baby, not less than the forms of those colossal Ni-O who guard the gateways of Buddhist temples .... And surely there can never be any just estimate made of Japanese literature, until a study of that literature shall have been made by some scholar, not only able to understand Japanese beliefs, but able also to sympathize with them to at least the same extent that our great humanists can sympathize with the religion of Euripides, of Pindar, and of Theocritus.
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