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The Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and Pastimes

The Japanese New Year’s Festival, Games and Pastimes

by A. A. Milne

The Japanese prints with which we are most familiar in this country are those known as nishikiye, literally “brocade picture.” Generally speaking, they are portraits of actors and famous beauties or landscapes and nature studies. There are, however, other woodcuts known as surimono, “things printed,” whose subjects are characters known in history a..

Jackson's Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist

Jackson's Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist

by Edwin Ward Jackson

The subject of this little work develops, on anatomical and physiological principles, a system of Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist, the object of which is—, to lay a solid and scientific foundation for the acquisition of technical skill in the fingers and wrist, as applied to the playing on musical instruments and to finger-work generally.For a..