La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 96
ded temples stand hid-den in everlasting hills and trees, open above to the uppersky which lights them, and to the changing weather withwhich their meaning changes. Nothing could recall morecompletely the lessons of death, the permanence of change,and the transitoriness of man. We went up the steps… … long bronze dragons and crawling lions, opens in a highcurve on the front and sides to show under the bentwhite-and-gold ridge-beams a pediment strapped and in-tersected by spaces of small carvings, white and tinted,relieved by red perpendiculars of beams. White and gold shine in the great brackets…
Art, Japanese
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