Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 272
Fig. 87.—Column fromTHE Chion-in, Ki-oto. … 2 54 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, by a distance of more than three hundred miles. In the dayswhen they were erected, it must have been very difficult to getfrom place to place ; yet we find this decoration of the columnsby imitation drapery in both buildings. And, strange to say,in neither case do we…
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