Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 167
g the drawings which I ultimately received from this latter artist wasa coloured model of a complicated bracket of which I wished to have a drawing. To myquestion why this model was made, the answer came that—owing to his imperfect know-ledge of perspective he could not draw this elaborate work,… … Fig. 46.—Wall of the Temple Tofuku-ji,Kioto. Formed of wood, with bracketedstructure, and plaster. in the district of Annan (now Saigon), and who brought over fortyof the columns with him. In the courtyard of this temple are immense stacks of blocks, usedfor printing the Buddhist scrip-tures ; they…
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