Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 259
as well deny the existenceof structural knowledge in England, because in certain parts of 240 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, ETC. the country we find planks spanning rivers, and other ill contrivedarrangements for the crossing of brooks, as deny to the Japanesea knowledge which they possess to a… … Fig. 74.—Bracketing supporting Roof of Temple-gate, Chionijin, Kioto. understanding of true structural qualities. Figs. 75, y6, jy, 78,and 79 give native drawings of some common bridges of thecountry. The most simple bridge—if bridge it may be called—usedfor the passage of rivers where there is but…
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