Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 277
Fig. gi.—Roof. the forms of the tombs found in the cemeteries, for these have acharacter which renders them worthy of special notice. S 258 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, Pig. 38 gives the tombstone most commonly met with ; whileFig. 40 represents the monument erected to commemorate theCorean conquest.… … Fig. 92.—Portion of Roof. )-efer to India, China, and Tibet, where we commonly find objectssimilar to this in connection with ecclesiastical edifices. The form used on the continent of Asia we give in Fig. 40,where the lower square stone represents the earth, the circular stone water, the…
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