Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 357
ound together (Fig. 161), which are not less Egyptian incharacter. It must, however, be noticed that the lily associatedwith Buddhism is not that of Egypt, the latter being a Nymphaea,the former a Nelumbium ; but each country has simply used theflower growing in the land. In both cases the…
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