Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 279
262 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, One of the special features of Japanese decoration is seen inthe use of diaper patterns on horizontal members and stringcourses. We never enrich beams and joists by small, repeating, … Fig. 96.—Plasterer and Stone-Mason at WlKK. After a native drawing. geometrical patterns, but the Japanese do. Yet in no case haveI seen a diaper pattern so placed on a beam that it was brokenby the angle, or so that one, two, or more repeats of the patterndid not exactly fit on each side of the…
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