Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 258
on which theshafts loosely rest, are at onceapparent. The gate as a wholewill be noticed as a work con-structed with due regard tostrength as well as beauty. In this gateway there is anamount of complication in theupper bracketwork which mayrender it somewhat indistinct to those not conversant with… … Fig. 72.—Compound Bracket. A A, Sections of horizontal members carried by the brackets.
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