Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 55
e and there a speck of tender green,while the whole was rendered lustrous with gold. The hair ofall Japanese ladies is jet-black, and most of them this eveninghad it dressed in Court fashion, spread into a large flat butterfly-like bow of less than an eighth of an inch in thickness. The next few… … Fig. 17.—A Ceiling in the Shrine of the Sh6gun Tokugawa Ivemitsu It was built in the year 1681 in connexion with the Buddhist temple at Uyeno. A. gives the section of crossing members. B. gives the ornament at the crossings complete. At one oclock on this day Sir HarryParkes was to take me to Mr.…
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