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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: ten feet high looks approvingly down upon a scene which would be
nationally incomplete without it.
But besides the delights of domesticity which the Japanese enjoys
daily in Nature's company, he has his acces de tendresse, too.
When he feels thus specially stirred, he invites a chosen few
of his friends, equally infatuated, and together they repair to some
spot noted for its scenery. It may be a waterfall, or some dreamy
pond overhung by trees, or the distant glimpse of a mountain peak
framed in picture-wise between the nearer hills; or, at their
appropriate seasons, the blossoming of the many tree flowers, which
in eastern Asia are beautiful beyond description. For he
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