Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 184
, or to reveal our innermost heart. I am toldthat in the central buildings within the enclosure, at the entranceof which we stand, is preserved a mirror sent down from heavenin order that man might therein sec himself, and that the godworshipped at this great shrine is the first man—the Japanese I… … Fir.. 53. IHE S.\CRED S slightly elevated ground get some idea of the nature of thebuildings, and of the railings, or walls, by which they are enclosed. The temple or shrines areenclosed by four courts, onewithin the other, the outerbeing bounded by a woodenfence, or wall, about ten feet inheight,…
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