A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 373
of the fact that they were built ofwood and that thirteen centuries have passedsince their erection, three of the first architec-tural works of this great Buddhist mission stillremain, uncliangcd in all essential rcsjiects, theHondo, (ro-ju-to, and Tu-mon of the monasteryof Horiuji at Nara. This… … JAPAN, ARCHITECTURE OF. PLATE I Pagoda of Yakusliiji near Nani. Built 680 a.d., are modern. The ancient cnnstraction, entirely «fby Japanese architects. Unique example of design. wood, is )>artly explained by the cuts of the HuriujiThe struts giving additional support to the roofs pagoda, given in…
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