Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 258
d having one ex-tremity fixed at one side of the river, while the other, which reacheswithin jumping distance of the opposite side, is held in its positionby a rope fastened to a peg at some little distance up the stream.(Fig. 80). But from this they advance through every conceivabledegree of… … Native Bridges, from Blocks drawn and excraved in Japan. 242 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, formed, only with the centre raised so that the bridge somewhatresembles an inverted V- There is also a bridge in Japan formedof stout planks, which rest on the decapitated branching tops of
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