Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 218
as glorious in colour as the Alhambra in the days of itssplendour, and yet with a thousand times the interest of thatbeautiful building. Here we have birds, flowers, water, clouds,carved in a manner that could not be surpassed. Following the road beyond the hotel, we soon reached themountain river,… … Fig. 65.—Pl.\n of the Shrines of Nikko, after a Native Chart bought on the spot. in a year (in August, I believe) at the time of the great pilgrim-age to Nikko. Turning to the left, and following the bend ofthe river for a quarter of a mile, we come to a phallic shrine of 200 JAPAN: ITS…
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