Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 64
uilding we visited a large templewhich seems to have but few worshippers ; but here I waspleased with the almost interminable passages, the numerousrooms, and sweet little gardens connected with the building. On ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 45 the altar stands a pierced earthen vessel of celadon… … Fig. 19.—Object carved in imitation of a spray of the Buddhist Lotus.Buddha is said to hold this in his hand when he prays for his mother. subsisting between the arts of the ancient Egyptians and that ofJapan I shall have frequently to call attention. We now visit that portion of the mint in which…
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