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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 104

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 104
he gateway both outside and within. On the otherside of the gateway was a high, thick wall, also furnished with a CITY AND COUNTRY HOUSES. 65 window or lookout. The outer walls rose directly from the wallforming the gutter, or, more properly speaking, a diminutivemoat that ran along the side of the… … Fig. 47-—Old House in Kioto. Coukt-yard View. Fig. 47 represents the appearance of this old house from justwithin the gateway. The barred window to the left of thesketch may be seen through the open gateway in fig. 46, and thetree which showed over the top of the gateway in that sketch isnow in…

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