Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 213
osition covers the entire side ofthe screen. Many of the great artists of Japan have em-bodied some of their best works on screens of this kind, and the prices at which some of these are held are fabulous. 12 178 JAPANESE HOMES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. The rich and heavily-gilded screens now so rare… … Fig. 155 — BiyO-bu, or Folbing Screen. black. I have been told that the gold-leaf was so thick on manyof the old screens, that the sacrilege has often been committedof destroying them for the gold contained on their surfaces. The six-panelled gold-screen is, beyond all question, therichest object…
Architecture, Japanese
Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.