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An artist's letters from Japan (1897)

La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 116

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IN THE THIRD GATE OF THE TEMPLE OF lYEMITSU, LOOKING TOWARD THE FOURTH^ building beyond. Gratings which were carved and gildedtrellises of exquisite design gave a cool, uncertain lightWe passed out of a trellised door on to the black lac-quered floor of a veranda, and then sat awhile in a… … grandfather lyeyasii, but wrapped and covered up in in-numerable layers of costly and preserving vermilion. Wepassed into the^ corridor behind the building and lookedat the picture hanging on the wall, which faces the moun-tain and the tomb, in which Kuwan-on the Compassion-ate sits in…

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