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0324 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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As long as all my efforts had to be devoted to the search
among the treasures of the hidden chapel, there was no
time to spare for the closer inspection of the hundreds
of temple grottoes, big and small, which honeycomb the
precipitous conglomerate cliffs on the left river bank above
and below Wang Tao-shih's shrine. But on occasional
strolls along their line extending for nearly a mile I
managed to familiarize myself with the position and
character of the larger and more important cave-
temples. So when my immediate task of 'excavation'
came to an end with the Tao-shih's departure on May
31st, and I was left free to turn my attention to them,
there was some preliminary acquaintance to guide me
in my survey of their artistic features.

It did not take long to convince me that this survey
would necessarily have to be of an eclectic nature, if
I was to retain a sufficient margin of time for my other
archaeological and geographical tasks of that summer.
The total number of separate grottoes, varying in size
from big cellas up to fifty-four feet in depth, with antechapels
and porches, to miniature shrines of very modest dimensions,
amounts to over five hundred, as ascertained in the course
of the general site plan which I got the Surveyor to make
with the plane-table. They fall roughly into three main
groups, the largest of which, to the south, comprises all
the caves still visited for worship. The photograph (Fig.
158) shows to the left the lower end of this group, beyond
Wang Tao-shih's shrine, and to the right part of the
second and much smaller group.
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