A Group Of Nine Related Illustrated Scrolls On Paper All Concerned With The Joinery Architecture

by Shrine Temple Architecture Carpentry Scrolls

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Hundreds of drawings & some text. Nine scrolls all roughly 260 x 4500 mm. & one notebook. Japan: late Edo. Japanese shrines and temples require constant maintenance, restoration, and rebuilding. These nine scrolls and one notebook are concerned with the architectural aesthetics of shrines and temples and the highly specialized construction techniques used to construct them, including the complex joinery methods, which did not require the use of nails,

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