Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 283
e space than can be afforded in a work like thepresent: To give some ideaof the plan on which theJapanese work, I may men-tion that all mats, such as areused for floor coverings, arein size six feet by three ; andI have before mentioned thatalthough the floors of theirrooms appear to be coveredby… … Fig. 100.—CARPENTER, WHO IS FATIGUED WITH HIS Work, resting on the Top of hisShed. After a native drawing. some multiple of a yard ; but ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 265 one height, the relation between the area and the height isvariable. In the building of important Japanese houses there is an
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