Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 343
rnaments are to be found in all parts of the Continent of Europe, as well as in the early work of our own country. An ornament of considerable antiquity preserved in the Nara collection and found on the crupper of a saddle belonging to a sacred horse (which for centuries was hidden in a temple so… … Fig. 152.—Ornament representing theSun (the ball) resting on Cloud.From over the doorway of a tomb in theburial-ground outside the wall of Canton. I have seen the temple in which the horse is said to exist, but how this ornamentwas got out, or at what time it was added to the Mikados collection, I…
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