Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 186
actions, or to reveal our innermost heart. I am toldthat in the central buildings within the enclosure, at the entranceof which we stand, is preserved a mirror sent down from heavenin order that man might therein see himself, and that the godworshipped at this great shrine is the first man—the… … Fig. 53.—The Sacred Shinto Shrine of Kamiji-ya.ma in Ise. slightly elevated ground get some idea of the nature of thebuildings, and of the railings, or walls, b}- which they are enclosed. The temple or shrines areenclosed by four courts, onewithin the other, the outerbeing bounded by a woodenfence,…
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