Dick, Stewart · Edinburgh, London : T. N. Foulis · leaf 38
materials used in the art, stamped it at the out-set with qualities which have ever since distin-guished it. The ordinary instrument for writingin China and Japan was the brush, dipped inIndian ink, and to form the native characterswas in itself an exercise in drawino;. Cali-graphy, indeed, as… … ARHAT AND LIONFrom a Kakemono by Cho Densu {British Mitscuiii) PAINTING is the root of most of the conventions of Chineseand Japanese painting, and in the quahty ofthe brush work are to be discovered many ofits beauties. For by means of line alone,not a pen line, thin and hard, but the…
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