Identifier: brooklynmuseumqu46broouoft (find matches)
Title: Brooklyn Museum Quarterly
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Brooklyn museum quarterly
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Publisher: Brooklyn

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d in a better understanding not only of the old, but of thepresent day art of Japan. The information contained inthe above account was furnished me by my friend and assist-ant, Mr. Torao Taketomo, whose translation of several hokkupoems are appended. Contrary to Japanese custom I have prefixed a title tothe foUowing hokku in lieu of direct explanation. The laterhokku are by immediate disciples of Basho (T. T.). (Seascape)Umi kurete,Honokani shiroslii,Kamo no koe. Basho 216 The twiliglit sea Witli cry of wild ducks Sounding faintly white. (Seascape)Ara-umi yaSado ni yokotauAma no kawa Basho The turbulent sea! And stretching to Sado The Milky Way. (Ohara)Ohara ya.Cho no dete mauOboro-dzuki Joso Ohara! Butterflies would dance In the spring radience of thy misty moon. (Illusion)Kirare taruYume wa makoto ka,Nomi no ato Kikaku Murdered. Awakening, I find— In truth, a flea bite. (Incongruity)Nanigoto zo,Hanamiru hito noNaga-gatana Ransetsu A long sword! Among a crowd Of flower-viewers. 217
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c Jt ~ 5 S *. a .- iJ a o > oo <o h 5 £ ♦. 2 IL £ ^ Modern Church Architecture andMedieval Refinements ^ THE elementary conditions of the ordinary masons artnatm*ally involve the use of rectangular forms and, con-sequently, of strictly rectilinear and strictly perpendicularconstruction. According to the orthodox modern practiceand according to the orthodox modern theory of what oughtto have been good jDractice in other periods, any departurefrom the rectangle, the straight line, or the true perpendicu-lar, in building, is, therefore, presumably due to accident, tocarelessness, to inefficiency, or to natural and inevitablehuman fallibility where minute measurements are concerned.From the same point of view equal dimensions, equidistantmeasurements, and corresponding measurements, for corres-ponding and repeated features of any individual part of anyindividual building, are presumed to be the normal rule. Infact, any other practice would create very serious difficultiesfor the

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