Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 112
climbing, scrambling, and squeezing through spaces which ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 93 are almost too small for me to pass, I reach the upper gallery,from which we have a magnificent view of Nara and its sur-roundings. I am now informed that I am the first Europeanwho has been permitted to ascend… … Fig. 26.— Lions of Corean workmanship, guarding the gateway of the greatTemple of Todaiji in Kioto. It is impossible to view these without the thoughtof the lion and the unicorn being awakened in the mind. coniferous tree in the grounds, the branches of which spreadhorizontally with great grandeur.…
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