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Artistic Japan : illustrations and essays (1881)
Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905 · London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington · leaf 15
--©p in conception and execution the characteristics of the art as it is in itspresent development. During the seventeenth century books with engravings were rare,until the time of Ishigawa Moronobu, who flourished from 1680 to about1700. Moronobu has treated very nearly all the styles to which the… … By Issai. ARTISTIC JAPAN. Japanese people, others of beasts and plants, veryrealistically given or employed as decorative mo-tives. His style, although archaic, is full of force and movement. It is, as it were, the entrance to the study of engraving in Japan. The impulse given by Moronobu was never…Art
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