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Outline of a Statuette traced on a section of an elephant tusk, and the 

 completed work. 



University of Tokio and president of the Tokio Society 

 of Carving. He writes : 



"Every art is subject to fixed rules and norms, and after 

 passing through its primitive stages, these rules and regu- 

 lations are gradually developed and defined as a result of 

 the progress due to centuries and centuries of studious labour. 



