A vindication of the decorated pottery of Japan (1891)
Bowes, James Lord, 1834-1899 · [Liverpool] : Printed for private circulation [by D. Marples and Co., Ltd.] · leaf 33
21 ment is carried out, a lectern in the centre, with two flower vases and two candlesticks, all of which are disposed in pairs. The chajin may reply that this altar is the altar of an alien religion, for Buddhism is of Indian origin, and although it was introduced into Japan over a thousand years… … plate c. A Buddhist Domestic Altar. conservative friend may still consider it a mushroom growth. Let us therefore enter a Shinto temple, the abode of the kami , divine ancestors of the Emperor, and there may, almost universally, be seen the pair of yagoro, who, with bows and arrows, watch and guard…
Bowes, James Lord, 1834-1899 · Pottery, Japanese
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