Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IV, Chapter IX, Sec. 1
“The west has always shown a sympathetic, although patronizing, appreciation of the old Japan. Many a foreign observer would remark with a sigh: 'What a pity that things of the past, of beauty and joy forever, should be so mercilessly sacrificed on the altar of modernism!”
Quoted in "Behind the Face of Japan"- Page 265 - by Upton Close, Josef Washington Hall - 1942.
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