Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905 · London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington · leaf 46
s of every sort. Let us see Hokusai such as he is, when depicted by him-self in a little preface which he wrote, and which is just whatwe can imagine of him. Since I was six years old, saysthe painter, I have been in the habit of drawing the shapesof objects. Towards my fiftieth year I published an… … Wild Geese, taken from The Hundred Views of Fujiyama, by Hokusai. ARTISTIC JAPAN. This preface finishes in the hope that—at theage of a hundred and ten everything from my brush,whatever it is, may be full of life. Let us picture him to ourselves at the edge ofa rice-field, out for a walk, enveloped…
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