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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1895)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 131

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r theegress of smoke, the roof comes under the class of hip-roofs.In the northern provinces the opening for the smoke is builtin various ways upon the ridge or side of the roof. By referringto figs. 39, 40, 41, various methods of providing for this windowmay be seen. Smoke-outlets do occur at the… … roofs south of To-kio; on some ofthem a great dealof study and skillis bestowed b}the architect andbuilder. Some-times an addition-al gable is seen,with its triangu-lar window (fig.83). This sketchre]Dresents theroof of a gentle-mans house nearTokio, and is amost beautiful ex-ample of the bestform…

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