Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 152
the earth. A construction ofwood, set up simply, offered no resistance to shocks.And the sanctuaries rose amid the forests of crypto-merias and maples whose eternal youth they calledupon to witness their unshakable fragility and to sus-tain their vigor. The temple is mingled with the forest—which… … Kano Motonobu (1475-1559). Landscape.{From The Kokka.) 126 MEDIEVAL ART to the horizon. Avenues of closely planted trees, blackand straight, conduct one to the very stairways of theporticos. Among the horizontal branches hover theroofs of green bronze; the walls of red lacquer riseamong the bare…
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