People let their hair grow long while mourning. To A beginner who learns his 25 characters a day for a fortnight or so, and then finds himself obliged to diminish that number, some part of his time being Necessarily devoted to going over the old ground, it seems almost hopeless that he will ever acquire A mastery over some 6000 or 7000 of these Slippery puzzles. 11 of our 16 literary terms relate to poetry. Lacquer and painting. these two fields are so closely related that several items having only one definition Could fit into either field, requiring arbitrary classification. Our words denoting lacquer refer to a variety of decorative surfaces and objects coated with highly polished, Colored lacquer, as well as the techniques producing these. By the 8th century Japan had developed a distinctive quality in lacquer. Gold was characteristically used, but like the Chinese forms, there were inlays, especially mother-of-Pearl.