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An artist's letters from Japan (1897)

La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 98

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g 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 and the re-cesses of the… … LINTEL, BRACKET CAPITAL. ground. The opened doors repeat the same faint tonesof wood, and of white and gold, and of gilded metals.The walls, which are open at the base, are merely latticescreens. Their exquisite flowered patterns fluctuate withgilded accents of whites, greens, lavenders, and blues.…

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