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0283 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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were practiced assiduously. Wood-turning was common;
writing was apparently so well known an accomplishment
that private persons often wrote letters and kept accounts.
During the first four or five centuries of the Christian era,
Tuholo appears to have lost much of its former size, though
it was still a considerable town, with its forts, temple, shrine,
and golden statue of Buddha. The old arts prevailed to the
end, though the time was at hand when they were to perish.
The fall of Tuholo and the rise of its much smaller
and less civilized successor, Bilel Konghan, were separated
by the Mohammedan conquest. In more favored places,
such as Khotan, the coming of Mohammedanism does not
appear to have materially altered the conditions of life or
the state of civilization. I doubt whether it did so in the En-
dereh region. There were certainly great changes, but they
were exactly such as would naturally accompany desiccca-
tion. In architecture, fine timbers of the carved white pop-
lar were replaced by the knotty, unhewn trunks of the wild
poplar, because the increasing salinity of the soil prevented
the growth of good trees. Reeds and tamarisks perhaps
replaced adobe bricks because when clay becomes saline it
loses its adhesive quality. This may account for the decay
of the art of pottery-making, which would also be interfered
with by the fact that the villages, in moving upstream after
water, would necessarily occupy sandy sites, where such good
clay could not be procured as farther downstream. The
decay of pottery-making would entail that of the subsidiary
decorative arts. These were perhaps doomed in any case
by the Mohammedan prohibition of pictures. Mohamme-
danism may have had something to do with the falling off