Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 257
as well deny the existenceof structural knowledge in England, because in certain parts of 240 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, ETC. the country we find planks spanning rivers, and other ill contrivedarrangements for the crossing of brooks, as deny to the Japanesea knowledge which they possess to a… … Fig. 74- —Bracketing supporting Roof of Temple-gate, Chionijin, Kioto. understanding of true structural qualities. Figs. 75, ^6, Jj, 78,and 79 gfve native drawings of some common bridges of thecountry. The most simple bridge—if bridge it may be called—usedfor the passage of rivers where there is…
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