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  • n  chinaware decorated with a blue Chinese design on a white background depicting a willow tree and often a river

  • In the river valleys, as if in some tableau from a willow-pattern plate, farmers carry ricks and winnow grain among trees laden with ripe fruit, simple plank .
  • They were to Japan what the willow-pattern Chinaman became to England.

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