Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 121
to see themassive structure which has sheltered and preserved this little worldof wealth for over a thousand years, and, strange to say, it is a merelarge oblong building formed of triangular logs of ivood (Fig. 30).These logs are arranged like those of a Russian timber house, I02 JAPAN: ITS… … Fig. 30.—The old Wooden Building in Nara in which the Mikados treasures have beenpreserved for twelve hundred years_. The roof has been renewed from time to time, butthe other parts of the building remain as first erected. This is, probably, the oldestwooden building in the world. and two feet in…
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