Japan its architecture, art, and art manufaktures

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Название: Japan its architecture, art, and art manufaktures

Автор: Christopher DRESSER

Издательство: Longmans, Green

Год: 2008

Страниц: 400

ASIN: B000WXVGOO

Формат: pdf

Размер: 28.7 MB

An architect and ornamentist by profession, and having

knowledge of many manufacturing processes, I went to Japan to

observe what an ordinary visitor would naturally pass unnoticed.

As a specialist, and a specialist only, I submit this volume to

public notice. When in Japan I engaged the best native photo-

grapher that I could find to take views for me ; thus I got not

only architectural edifices, but also architectural details. I also

engaged the best ornamentist in Kioto to make coloured drawings

of temple decorations for me.

Many will be surprised when I say that as yet the English

public know almost nothing, and even our architects very little,

of Japanese architecture. Coloured illustrations are needed to

give anything like a complete idea of the glories of Buddhistic

art ; yet I hope that my book may throw some little light on