Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 218
pean carverscould scarcely equal. I doubt,indeed, whether we have inEurope any artists who could arrange such compositions withhalf the vigour exhibited in these panels (Fig. 69). The temple enclosure is divided into a series of courts, onewithin, or beyond the other ; and as the shrine is situated… … Fig. 67.—Pagoda at Nikko. 202 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, Here, on our left, is the stable in which a sacred horse wasformerly kept, a building which strikes me as of great interest, andis formed chiefly of plain unvarnished timber. It has a few panelscarved and coloured with consummate skill, while…
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