Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 132
of art objects,my good friend Mr. George Augustus Sala said, RememberSpain is the land of nails. My assistant sent me,, from thiscountry, sketches of the grandest nails that I had ever seen, and■even some of the nails themselves which he had managed topick up at curiosity shops. But Mr. Sala was… … Fig.- 3^.—End of Wall. The Wall is ofyellow-ochre colour. This colour, and thefive parallel white lines, indicate that aperson of royal blood owns or administersthis property. 114 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, the temple doors are positively bestudded with such nails as arein the truest sense ornaments,…
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