Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 344
rnment officers when inNara that it was removed from the horse when the present roof was placed upon thebuilding. The roof of this temple in which the sacred horse is preserved is the finestspecimen of thatch in Japan, and consists of thin layers of an inner bark of a cone-bearingtree. ART, AND ART… … Fig. 153.—Clouds and Moon. By a native artist. occurring also in the monstrance, and in the great majority ofmonumental stones found in Buddhist cemeteries (see Figs. 38,40, 50, 51. This brings us to an important fact. Much of the ornamentwhich the world has known owes its origin to fire-worship.…
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