Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 162
ainedin it, save those from Nara, were made from branches of the sametree. We now saw the largest pagoda in Japan, the T5zi-no-to, orthat connected with the temple of Toki. It is of splendid pro-portions, but is without any of that rich carving which we observedon the pagoda at Osaka. i ART, AND… … Fig. 41.—East Gateway of the Temple, Nishi-hong\van-ji, Kioto. a stick in a box each time they get round to it. I understandthat this is considered to confer some religious advantage uponthe performers. The gateways of the temple Nishi-hongwan-ji are as beautifulas the temple to which they lead,…
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