Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 133
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,… … Fig. 36.—Old Nails from Temple-doors in Naka. in diameter, while every available part of the door itself is in somecases occupied by nails with heads three and a half inches across.With these nails I am positively delighted, and I feel con-strained to stay and note their forms in my sketch-book ;…
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