Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 378
, he cut the littleleaf of gold into strips ; but as the extreme end of the leafwas folded over the edge of the bamboo, these strips were stillattached at one end (Fig, 169, b). In order to cut the sheet of goldthe paper was also cut through. This little sheet of gold, beingnow cut in strips, is… … across by the same knife (Fig. 169, c). As each row of tesseraiis thus formed, the Httle bits of metal are carefully shaken into ablack saucer. These tesserae are now applied to the lacquer sur-face in the following manner. A few are shaken into a small black tray with a slightlyraised rim, over…
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