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 CHINESE AND JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE, 65I Japanese Temples. The beams, brackets, carvings and flat spaces are picked out in bright coloring and gilding, the colors being blue, green, brown, purple, madder, and vermilion. The wall paintings are generally on a gold ground, and represent animals, birds and flowers. Supporting pillars are usually black, red, or gold. Among subject^ for decoration, birds of bright plumage — as cranes, peacocks, pheasants, ducks — flowers, water-plants, trees, bamboos and lions are the most frequent, combined with weird and grotesque demons derived from earlier Indian sources, and resulting in a curious mixture of conventional and realistic forms. The Japanese are also renowned in pottery, lacquer ware, ivory carving and inlaying. 5. REFERENCE BOOKS. Allom (T.). — " The Chinese Empire." Illustrated. 2vols.,8vo. 1858- 1859. Chamberlain (B. H.). — " Things Japanese." 8vo. 1890. Chambei's (Sir W.). — " Designs of Chinese Buildings." Folio. 1757 Conder (J.). — " Notes on Japanese Architecture." (R. I. B. A. Trans.) 1886-1887. Dresser (C.).— "Japan: its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufactures." 1882. Edkins (J.). — " Chinese Architecture." 8vo. Shanghai, 1890. Gonse (L.). — " L'Art Japonais." 8vo. Paris. Grattan (F. M.). — " Notes upon the Architecture of China." (R. I. B. A. Trans.) 1894. Humbert (A.). — " Le Japon Illustre." 2 vols., folio. Paris, 1870. Morse (E. S ). — "Japanese Homes and their Surroundings." 8vo. Boston, U.S.A. 1886. Owen Jones. — " Examples of Chinese Ornament." Folio. 1867. Paleologue (M.). — " L'Art Chinois." 8vo. Paris, 1887.