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Asians
have old tradition in bamboo handling. They have
spears and arrows made with the thinn "Yadake".
Samurais had used armors built with bamboo scales.
Baskets, dinnerware, sculptures, masks, lamps. Bamboo
is an rich element in japanese garden design, as a bench,
doorway or water pipe.
Confúcio
once said a phrase that synthesizes oriental toughts on
bamboo: "we can live without meat; we can't live
without bamboo". This plant permeate chinese
and japanese, among others, imagination, and their
people use baamboo as theme in paintures, draawings
and engravings, even in poetry. Many times
the brushes and papers are made of bamboo. Japanese poet
women wrote:
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