Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 286
lation of diameter to height ; yet Ialways found their proportions pleasant ; I also found the propor-tion which one part of a temple bore to another almost invariablyagreeable. It has been said that the proportion of one to two is ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 267 not so beautiful as that of one to… … Fig. 103.—Patterns of Japanese Fabrics. Tn Japanese temples I always observed this subtle relation otpart to part, and the consequent beauty of the temples as regardstheir quantities; and I think that any fixed proportion betweenthe diameter and the height of the column could not be invari-ably…
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