Excerpt from Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories IN almost every English home are Japanese fans, in our shops Japanese dolls and balls and other nicknacks, on our writing-tables bronze crabs or lacquered pen-tray with out lined ou it the extinct volcano that is the most striking mountain seen from the capital of Japan; and at European places of amuse ment Japanese houses of real size have been exhibited, and the jargon of fashion for Jap anese Art even reaches our children's ears. Yet all these things seem dull and lifeless when thus severed from the quaint cheeriness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.