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Show Tricky Japanese Art Japanese screens , icturing (lie gnarled Japanese pine tree seldom show tlie whole tree Usually only the huge trunk is shown, with the rest of the tree appearing to go out at the top of the screen. Tills is because tlie aitists wish to give an impression of the size of the tree, and Is typical of the Imaginative quality of Japanese art. In the same way the sacred ux.un- tain Fujiyama is not completely pic lured, as tile proper perspective as to its size would then he lost. There Is n saying: "One should never paint Fujiyama without the mist around its oase. If tlie Pase is s.een. one cannot understand its size " |