The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 117
form andoutline. Hence, a temple is never designed as an iso-lated object, but always as a feature of the surround-ing landscape, and thus appears like great splashesof crimson lacquer and gold down a mountain siderather than a symmetrical distribution of columns,windows, and wall spaces, and if… … 1 i * »2w S a ,2 t -x ■8-g-J — .5. O. 3 X / 3 >■ ■ - — d > a i <J u E ^ a in rt 5? O S 3 i. 2 ,2 S I — > .- .cH c « - - JB o■SB ac 3E < O »0 *■* 00 .i! BUDDHIST TEMPLES. 95 which uses the whole landscape as a canvas, it is indetail that the Japanese most excels; for if he con-ceives…
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