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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 96

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 96
s the verandah. The back of the house was open,and probably looked out on a pretty garden, — though this I did CITY AND COUNTRY HOUSES. 57 not see, as this sketch, like many others, was taken somewhathastily. From this example some idea may be got of the diminutivecharacter of many of the Japanese… … Fig. 39. — Country Inn in Rikuzen. Switzerland, — the gable ends showing, in their exterior, massivetimbers roughly hewn, with all the irregularities of the tree-trunkpreserved, the interstices between these beams being filled withclay or plaster. The eaves are widely overhanging, with pro-jecting…

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