Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 201
nt officerwaiting to conduct us to the castle ; but although we soonreached its massive gates, we had to put up with most tediousdelays before we were allowed to pass them. 182 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, At last we are inside the walls, when we are shown into tworooms which have ceilings similar to… … Fig. 62.—WooD-CAKViNG bv Hidari Zingokd. Preserved in the Castle at Nagoya. of flowers and birds, which arc coloured in a subdued and delicatemanner (Fig. 62). While these screens are pierced and carvedon both sides, both faces are yet essentially different ; and theparts are arranged with such…
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