Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 279
oncord ; but if ornament renders any partunduly conspicuous it is illegitimate and can only be condemned. 26o JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, While some of the great temples of Japan are elaboratelydecorated, I do not remember one instance in which structure isfalsified by enrichment ; and in all cases… … Fig. 94.—A ShOguns Tomb. due importance, while the parts are richly ornamented ; and thatthe members structurally necessary are those which ornament hasenriched. But it must not be forgotten that these works are aselaborately coloured as the Alhambra at Grenada ; and that gold,white, red, blue, and…
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