noun
definition
A hard black enamel varnish containing asphalt.
definition
Lacquerware.
verb
definition
To varnish with japan.
Examples of japans in a Sentence
Within the period of Japans written history several eruptions are recorded the last having been in 1707, when the whole summit burst into flame, rocks were shattered, ashes fell to a depth of several inches even in Yedo (TOkyO), 60 m.
While there can be no doubt that the luxuriance of Japans flora is due to rich soil, to high temperature and to rainfall not only plentiful but well distributed over the whole year, the wealth and variety of her trees and shrubs must be largell the result of immigration.
Fukuzawa Yukichi, founder of the KeiO Gijuku, now one of Japans four universities, did more than any of his contemporaries by writing and speaking to spread a knowledge of the West, its ways and its thoughts, and Nakamura Keiu labored in the same cause by translating Smiless Self-help and Mills Representative Government.
In 1888 a special course of German literature was inaugurated at the Imperial University, and with it is associated the name of Mon Ogai, Japans most faithful interpreter of German thought and speech.
This page in the modern history of Japans bronzes needs little alteration to be true of her applied art in general.
Nomura Seisuke, or Ninsei as he is commonly called, was one of Japans greatest ceramists.
But their skill as decorators was as great as its range was wide, and they produced a multitude of masterpieces on which alone Japans ceramic fame might safely be rested.
No important new developments have taken place during modern times in Japans lacquer manufacture.
The long antipathy between Japan and the rest of Asia threatens Japans role in a newly revitalizing global economy.
Here, you can see antiques from Japans past, including samurai armor.
From this harbour to Osaka Japans waist measures onl 77 m., and as the great lake of Biwa and some minor sheets of wate break the interval, a canal may be dug to join the Pacific and th Sea of Japan.