Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 57
re and there a speck of tender green,while the whole was rendered lustrous with gold. The hair ofall Japanese ladies is jet-black, and most of them this eveninghad it dressed in Court fashion, spread into a large flat butterfly-like bow of less than an eighth of an inch in thickness. The next few… … Fig. 17.—A Ceiling in thk Shrine of the ShSgun Tokugavva Ivemitsu. It was built in the year 1681 in connexion with the Buddhist temple at Uyeno. A. gives the section of crossing members. B. gives the ornament at the crossings complete. At one oclock on this day Sir Harry Parkes was to take me to…
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