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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 124

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me across them in Nikko orShiba, and nuist therefore seek them dUuiide. Now, if I take the second of the elementary diapers, fig. 7, where the pairsof pakwa elements are arranged half-back-to-back, and fill in the continuous linewhich runs round the elements at right angles to the general… … Fig. -j:;.markable and probably, to my readers, unexpected appearance of what theyknow as the Greek key plainer. In due course I shall explain how it wasthat this tansyerse section of the diaper came to be taken for the pioduction ofthe key -border. I next treat the first of the elementary diapers,…

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