Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 264
e the coffers into squares (Fig. 18). The Japanese affirm that all such ceilings as those of whichwe have just spoken, and all such covings as that just men-tioned are of Corean origin ; and that they are not nativeinventions. Thus we have another instance of the strange ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES.… … Fig. 82.—Column and Tie-Beams from the Chion-in, Kioto. for I saw nothing in any way resembling them in the templesof China or any other part of Asia that I have visited. Yetone is almost led to believe that the Japanese are right inreferring many of both their arts and those of the Chinese to the…
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