Identifier: principlesofdeco00dresuoft (find matches)
Title: Principles of decorative design
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dresser, Christopher
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Decoration and ornament
Publisher: London New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin
Contributing Library: Dorothy H. Hoover Library, Ontario College of Art & Design
Digitizing Sponsor: The Ontario College of Art & Design

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Fig. 21. Japanese are those which represent a com-bination of power, vigour, energy, and passionmost fully. This is to be accounted for bythe fact that these peoples are believers indragons. AVhen the sun or moon is eclipsedthey believe that the luminous orb has bejnswallowed by some fierce monster, which theygive form to in the dragon, and iqion the occurriMice of such a phenomenon they,with cans and kettles, make rough music, and thus cause the monster to disgorgethe luminary, the brilliancy of which it would otherwise have for ever extinguished.I can understand a believer in dragons drawing these monsters with the power andspirit that the Chinese and .Tajianese do; but I can scarcely imagine that a disbelievercould do so—a mans very nature must be saturated with a belief in their existenceand mischievous power, in order that he embody in his delineation such expres- Fig. 22. HUXfOUR IN ORNAMENT. sion o£ the assumed character of this imaginary creature as do the Chinese andJapane

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