A Far Oriental thinks poetry, which may possibly account for the fact that in his mind-pictures the relative importance of man and mountain stands reversed.

"The matchless Fuji," first of motifs in his art, admits no pilgrim as its peer.
Nor is it to woman that turn his thoughts.

Mother Earth is fairer, in his eyes, than are any of her daughters.

To her is given the heart that should be theirs.

The Far Eastern love of Nature amounts almost to a passion.