Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 268
r-tank at Shiba is supported on monolith granitecolumns, but these slant inwards at the top (see Fig. 16). In the case of large temples and elaborate shrines, as those ofNikko and Shiba, we often find wall within wall, each enclosing acourt. The innermost of these walls surrounds the central and… … Fig. —End of Wall at KikuUji, NEAR Kioto. 2so JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, Here we generally find a solid stone base, from which risevertical wooden members held together by horizontal ties. Theselatter are so disposed, that above and below we get a long narrowpanel, while in the centre we have a space…
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