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Japanese homes and their surroundings (1885)

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 98

An illustration from Japanese homes and their surroundings, 1885, leaf 98
. In the road a numberof laborers are shown in the act of moving a heavy blockof stone. CITY AND COUNTRY HOUSES. 59 Another house, shown in fig. 41, was seen on the road toMororan, in Yezo. Here the smoke-outlet was in the form ofa low supplementary structure on the ridge. The ridge itselfwas flat,… … Fig. 41. — House near Mokoran, Yezo. come down the river from Morioka, the houses were all ofthe olden style, — a number of these presenting some goodexamples of projecting windows. Fig. 42 represents the frontof a house in this place. This shows a large gable-roof, withbroad overhanging eaves in…

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