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Arts and crafts of old Japan (1906)

Dick, Stewart · Edinburgh, London : T. N. Foulis · leaf 96

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rank with that of his master. But the greatest master of all the colour-printartists, and one who by European critics hasbeen acclaimed as worthy to rank with the greatartists of the world, was Hokusai. It is a markof the power of his personality that, though helived and died in poverty and… … A FIGURE STUDYFrom a Colour Print by ToYOKUNi COLOUR PRINTING to Shunsho, but was too original in his methods,and too independent, to remain in that positionlong. For some years he drifted about, being-reduced at one time to hawking red pepper,calendars, and other small wares in the streetsof Yedo,…

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