Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 363
lamp, withtwo or three trays superposed one abovethe other, and used by the Jews in Morocco,is also a form much employed in the Bud-dhist temples of Japan. In this chapter I have brought forwarda few facts with the simple purpose ofshowing the probable origin of some of the features which… … Fig. 167.—Sword-handlk ofOLD Jatanese Work. Theornament is Damascenedwork, and is of Celtic char-acter. ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 345 CHAPTER III. THE LACQUER MANUFACTURES. The art of working with lacquer is of great antiquity in Japan,and, like most processes practised in the country, was…
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