Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944 · Boston : L. C. Page & co. · leaf 254
cturesqueness, colour effects,and external enrichment, the temples ofShiba and Nikko stand preeminent.throughout the East. The modern railway stations, hotels,club-houses, and government buildings,erected since 1868, which affect an amal-gamation of native and foreign ornamentsand forms, are… … Pagoda. ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE 197 comparatively unknown in Japan. Itnever approaches the calm, stately per-fection of Greek, or even Egyptian, art,except it were in the colossal statues ofBuddha, and other colossal figures carvedin wood, like the Deva Kings, the origi-nal horses and temple…
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