La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 100
gold pillars, recalling Egyptian shapes, divide thegilded central walls. Here and there on the gilded tie-beams curved lines of emerald-green or crimson, liketendrils, mark with exquisite sobriety a few chamferedcuttings. On either side of the long room (fifty feet) aretwo recesses with large gold… … INSIDE THE CAT GATE —GATE TO THE TOME and flying figures, and the pervading crest of the Toku-gawa. For these were the waiting-rooms of the family,and, as A remarked, the impression is that of a prin-cesss exquisite apartment, as if the Tartar tent had growninto greater fixity, and had been touched…
Art, Japanese
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