Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 276
e generally broken by ornaments, asreference to those of Nishi-hongwan-ji (Fig. 90) will show.That of the entrance gate of the great temple of Dai-butz atKioto, of the gate Kanaman of the shrine at Nikko (Fig. 68),of the water-tank at Shiba (Fig. 16), and that of the street lamp(Fig. 58), will show… … Fig. 90.—Gable end of Nishi-hongwan-ji. these ornaments are purely of Chinese origin. Before passingfrom a consideration of architecture to ornament, we should notice
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