Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 272
s the use of water in strange and unexpected positions is not peculiar to the Japanese. With the Japanese the rendering is less con-ventional, however, than with theEgyptians and Grecians. The edifice which covers the water-tank of the temple of Shiba (Fig. 16)has monolith columns, the upper… … Fig. 87.—Column fromTHE Chion-in, Ki-oto.
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