Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 274
vilisation would lead to the construction of thisnecessary adjunct to any building designed to give protectionfrom damp as well as rain. We have, then, the prototype of the whole Japanese systemof building, in the rude temples of the Ainos. But as time hasgone on, advances have been made, and… … Fig. 89.—An Aino Temile. 256 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, missionaries from Central Asia carried to Japan new styles ofarchitecture which gave rise to that florid though beautifularchitecture which we find in the great shrines of Nikko. Thereis this difference, however, between the two cases. In…
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