''Japanese houso-architccture has undergone a cortairi'amount of development from tho primitive model; but, on tho wholo, it lias been surprisingly little modified by Wcs'tern, influences," soys tho "Japan Weekly Chronicle." "Tho peoplo have lived oil ouo model continuously t<i within a very recent period, and aro essentially tho samo in mode of thought to-day as they were a thousand years ago, . Taking tho country as a wholo, S!5 per cent, of Japanese houses possess neither a tablo nor a chair, and tho vastmajority of Japanoso women nfc tbiß day Have nevor snt iu a chair oven omo In their livct."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 5
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