Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 302
GATEWAYS. 263 slabs of dressed stone made a bridge across the gutter, and infront of the gateway was an irregular-shaped flag-stone, show-ing untouched its natural cleavage from the ledge; on eachside and about this slab the ground was paved with roundbeach-worn cobble-stones. This gateway was… … Fig. 249. — Gateway. Another gateway not so pretty, but showing one of themany grotesque ideas of the Japanese, is shown in fig. 249.Here the upper transverse beam is a huge and crooked log ofwood,—an old log which had been dragged from the forest justas it fell in ruins from some tree. This…
Architecture, Japanese · Japan -- Social life and customs
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