“HABUTAI” (SILK CLOTH) WITH SHELL-DESIGNS, 
PRESENTED BY MARQUIS Y. TOKUGAWA, AND SECTIONAL SHELL 
DESIGNS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE MUSEUM. 
The specimens on the left show the external beauty of shells, and those on the right wonderful, strange 
views of the inside. The outside beauty consists of shapes, markings, brilliant coloration, and carving, while the 
wonders of the inside are found in elaborate combinations of various sections of shells — longitudinal, inclined, 
and cross. 
When we think of the fact that the outside beauties and inside wonders are closely connected with each other 
in making designs, we can understand that these figures are the best models for Japanese artists and technologists. 
Upper row of designs, on the left:— Combinations of longitudinal sections of /%s2s; on the right, those of 
Cypraea. Under row, both are of longitudinal sections of Zzrdo. 
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