Word: daimio
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...like daisy petals in careful array. Her voice carries a suggestion of tartness. Her movements are all nicely studied. Her role is that of a 16-year-old maiden of ancient Japanese legend, in love with a Buddhist monk from the white mountain tops, possessed by a tyrannous Daimio, lord of the low, broad acres...
...Fogg Museum of Fine Arts has recently acquired for its Oriental Department a fine painting of the Tosa School; dating probably from the fifteenth century. The painting represents a daimio on horseback, and near him a standing and a seated figure. The picture is drawn in black on a paper probably once white but now gray in tone. There are slight touches of red in the trappings of the horse and the dress of the figures. The composition is of the simplest, the drawing spirited and sure. It is interesting to note that the picture is remarkably close...
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