Cram Ralph A. Impressions of Japanese Architecture and The Allied Arts

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. — 227 p.The title of this chapter is ambitious and perhaps misleading. I have no intention of trying to express in a few phrases the essence of the esthetic manifestation of a great people, but rather to call attention to the fact that, in the ultimate winnowing, the essential residuum is to Occidental hands impalpable. We may look at, and speak of, and think about the art of Japan, but we can never reduce it to a chronological list and a table of formulae, as is our wont with the art of our own West.The genius of Japanese art
The Early architecture of Japan
The Later architecture of Japan
Temples and Shrines
Temple Gardens
Domestic Interiors
The Minor Arts
A colour print of Yeizan
A note on Japanese Sculpture
The future of Japanese Art