Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 343
in a decorative manner, and while the ornament of the 326 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, latter generally consists of flat pieces of brass, the jewel isemphasized by being formed of white metal. In a work like the present it is impossible to illustrate ordiscuss fully the facts which I shall have to… … Fig. 154.—Carved Box, formed of a root-joint of the bamboo, decorated with orna-ment having the form of clouds.
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