A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 380
ve was necessary ; and this came directlyfrom China, and is closely connected with thename of the Mikado Kwammu, who first madeKyoto the seat of government. At this junc-ture the many students who had gone to Chinato seek the truth at what was then the fountainhead, returned filled with the… … ■E ■» < ■-5 JAPAN delicate ciilture. Almost immediately the oldliatriarcludism of Japan was abandoned, acomplete system of highly organized govern-ment took its place, and learning, culture, re-finement, and manners became the basis ofaristocracy. The sculjJture of the first perioilyielded to…
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