By yet another gateway, sculptured and embellished to an extraordinary height, of semibarbarous, but splendid beauty, the step is led to the central shrine itself. All around are detached buildings, soberly but splendidly adorned with the very best which... Japan in Our Day - Page 2781892 - 293 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1891 - 806 pages
...attention. By yet another gateway, sculptured and embellished to an extraordinary height, of seiuibarbarous, but splendid beauty, the step is led to the central...screen by which we enter the court of the chapel of lyennbu and lye-oshi, the waves are moulded as falling asleep ; doves brood, in silver and gold ; there... | |
| Sir Edwin Arnold - Japan - 1891 - 156 pages
...SCULPTURED AND EMBELLISHED TO AN EXTRAORDINARY II Kli.MT OF SEJUBARBAROUB BUT SPLENDID BEAUTT." feet joinery, gilding, coloring, lacquer, metal-work, painting,...screen by which we enter the court of the chapel of lyenobu and lye-oshi, the waves are moulded as falling asleep; doves brood, in silver and gold; there... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1893 - 356 pages
...decorated ; a vast washing cistern to be used before prayer, cut out of one block of stone, and 19 lotns pools, which, in August, are full of the white and...of the unrest of life for all of us, as well as for Shognns. But at the second wall the brazen waves were chiselled, rolling more quietly, and here, on... | |
| Asia - 1894 - 1032 pages
...visited by Sir Edwin Arnold he describes how "on the outer screen, just shutting off the courtyard, you may have noticed waves of the sea done in brass, furiously running over the panels, with storm birds hovering. This was the emblem of unrest for all of us as well as... | |
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