Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 375
out of some scores despatchedfrom Japan, I believe only three or four reached this country-whole, the material of which they are formed being of a brittlecharacter. There are a few very small and delicate waiters,of but a few inches in diameter, made in Tokio of sheets of paperpasted together ; but… … Fig. i6 -Lathe. wood. It is then placed in the lathe and turned ; but the lathehas not a continuous rotary motion, as its spindle revolves first inone direction and then in the other, in the manner of our bow-drill (Fig. 168). When the object has been formed in the lathe, the lacquer-worker…
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