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" 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 278
1892 - 293 pages
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 9

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1891 - 898 pages
...animals, dexterously relieved by gold-leaf and color. Passing again through these walls, inner iuclosures used before prayer, cut out of one block of stone,...screen by which we enter the court of the chapel of lyenobu and lye-oshi, the waves are moiilded as falling asleep ; doves brood, in silver and gold ;...
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Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 9

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...
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Japonica

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...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 9

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1891 - 928 pages
...dexterously relieved by gold-leaf and color. Passing again through these walls, inner iuclosures 166 167 is led to the central shrine itself. All around are...hovering. It was an emblem of the unrest of life for nil of us, as well as for Shoguns. But at the second wall the brazen waves were chiselled, rolling...
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Japan In Our Day

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...
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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

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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