Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 261
Fig. 8o.—Simple Bridge. two large trees. There are bridges supported by a complicatedsystem of bracketing ; there are others consisting of semicirculararches ; while in Kioto we find what is called the spectacle … Fig. 8i.—Arched Bridge. bridge,—a bridge with two circular openings through which thewater flows. But what has caused Europeans to regard the ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 243 Japanese as devoid of a knowledge of structure is the fact thatsome of the bridges which have the arch form are yet propped…
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