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97. Si las miniaturas fuesen comestibles, serían exquisitas. If the miniatures were edible, they would be delicious.

, in Japan, does not derive from the dimension but from a kind of precision which the thing observes in delimiting itself, stopping, finishing.

If the bouquets, the objecrs, the ttees, the faces, the gatdens, and the texts-if the things and manners of Japan seem diminutive ro us (our mythology exalts the big, the vast, the broad, the open), this is not by reason of their size, it is because every objecr, every gesture, even the mOSt free, the most mobile, seems framed. The miniature does not derive from the dimension but from a kind of precision which the thing observes in delimiting itself, stopping, finishing.

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