Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 259
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 … Fig. 8o.—Simple Bridge. two large trees. There are bridges supported by a complicatedsystem of bracketing ; there are others consisting of semicirculararches ; while in Kioto we find what is called the spectacle
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