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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 130

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ome across them in Nikko orShiba, and must therefore seek them aliunde. 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… … 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 tansverse section of the diaper came to be taken for the production ofthe key -border. I next treat the first of the elementary diapers, fig. 5,…

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