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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 127

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ution of the diapers demonstrates, and which tothe devotees of a mystic religion would be looked upon almost as a super-natural creation, merely sets back the origin of the pakwa symbol to a stillmore remote period. 98 STUDIES IN THE DECORATIVE ART OF JAPAN I must now revert to the diapers, and… … 1 Fig. 20. Its construction must now be studied. The element of which it is com-posed, shewn under the diaper, is the same as fig. 16 broken into mosaics; andthe diaper itself is the same as the diaper fig. 17, but with its lines set at anangle, and the whole of it, both element and space-shape* is…

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