The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 115
no longer a single building precededby a torii, but a collection of buildings (Plate XI). The temple just mentioned is still retained as thehonden, or main shrine, but a number of roofed fencesenclose it, and a series of approaches lend it the samedignity and aspect as the official residences of… … BUDDHIST TEMPLES. 93 ure house, an assembly hall, a stable for the sacredwhite pony, and a number of other buildings, all ofwhich may be seen in the great temples of Ize or Izu-mo (Plate XI). Buddhism, unlike Shintoism, has no hereditary ortraditional law to bind it to simplicity save the lawof…
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