Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 143
y lent itself readily to the artistic conceptions of the Japanese designers;for its appearance was as fanciful as its development was formal ; and when thelines were cut with the triangular gouge, they scattered the light as effectively asthe pine design itself. It is not to be wondered at,… … Fig. 45 Sometimes one symbol with its developed ends form the basis of an entiredesign. Yet again, isolated sections of the figure were arranged in series to form aborder, as in fig. 46, which comes from the edge of a water tank in the Templeof Ivevasn at Nikko.
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