Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 110
efigures and those with which we are familiarin our own cathedrals there is a striking re-semblance (Fig. 25). Seeing my interest inthese works, the priest presents me with two.They are about eight inches in height, and while one is tolerablyperfect the other has in part crumbled away through the… … Fig. 25. Small God, orStatie, carved inWood. 92 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, that some of these idols were presents from China, others fromIndia, and that it is not uncommon in Japan to find presentsof this description in the great Buddhist temples. This temple, like the last we were permitted to…
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