Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 349
of them has a handle terminating in a tri-1^ dent; another has the handleending in five prongs, the twolateral being repeated in acruciform manner, while theother has but one (the cen-tral) prong. There are alsoon such altars three curiousobjects, each of which isabout six inches in length.One of… … Fig. 158.—Instruments held in the Hand bvA Buddhist Priest when he prays in frontOF A Censer. ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 333 near a censer, and they seem to typify the destructive power ofthe Deity (Fig. 158). If we trace the history of these forms we are carried back toremote ages, for not only…
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