Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 335
each bamboo having at its top a boxor bucket, in which is a grating of bamboo to screen the waterfrom the leaves and twigs. These bamboo tubes are connectedwith a system of bamboo tubes under-ground, and thesfe leadto the houses in the village street below. Fig. 291 is an illus-tration of this… … Fig. 291.—Aqueduct Reservoir at Miyajima, Aki. Just beyond this curious reservoir I saw a group of smallaqueducts, evidently for the supply of single houses. Fig. 292illustrates one of a number of these seen along the road.Fig. 293 represents one of the old wells still seen in the KagaYashiki, in…
Architecture, Japanese
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