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Arts and crafts of old Japan (1906)

Dick, Stewart · Edinburgh, London : T. N. Foulis · leaf 80

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ity of the older styles. Though treating of him more fully in thenext chapter mention must be made here ofthe great Hokusai—in Whistlers words, thegreatest pictorial artist since Vandyke. ToEuropean ears his name is more familiarthan that of any other Japanese artist. As adraughtsman he ranks with… … A PEACOCKFrom a Kakemono by Ippo {British Mitscmn) PAINTING figure subjects have the grandiose quaHty of aVelasquez. His versatility was extraordinary,every style of subject coming within the rangeof his brush. Of nineteenth-century painters the greatestis Kikuchi Yosai, the last of the great…

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