Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 267
o the subject, there is a featurewhich we ought to notice, as it is of considerable importance whenviewed in relation to the material of Japanese buildings. I meanthe metal sockets in which the ends of all timbers of elaborateJapanese buildings are incased. The sockets are used to excludewater from… … Fig. 85.—Indian Lattice Window formed ofPIERCED Stone. In Fig. 44 it will be noticed, as I have already pointed out, thatthe bases of the columns are of stone, and that upon these stone bases rest loosely the verticalcolumns which form the mainsupports of the gateway. Itwill also be seen that…
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