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Arts and crafts of old Japan (1906)

Dick, Stewart · Edinburgh, London : T. N. Foulis · leaf 102

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the Thirty-Six Views of Fuji. To study suchpictures is to be lifted out of the commonplaceview of things and to look at nature through thetemperament and with the eyes of a poet. But, while so highly esteemed by Europeanconnoisseurs, Hokusai is by no means so highlythought of in Japan. And this is… … COLOUR PRINTING learn of the great painters of the older schoolsthe more we see the reason of the Japaneseverdict, for even we would hesitate to place hiswork alongside that of Cho Densu, of Sesshiu,and of the great Kano masters. The fact isthat no man, however great, can afford to do asHokusai…

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