A brief history of the Detroit Museum of Art and its collections : illustrated (1902)
Detroit Museum of Art · Detroit : [The Museum] · leaf 57
san,from basket weav-ing to the mostelaborate woodcarving, like thatof the giantwrestlers, a pieceof work renderedwith so muchvigor and strengthas to commandthe admiration ofevery beholder.In it the artist hasshown that tensestrain of the mus-cles when everyfaculty of mindand body isbrought into… … JAPANESE WRESTI^ERSFrederick Stearns Collection JAPANESE ART 53 It is, however, in the more minuteivory carvings that the Japanese excel,and among these there is that infinitevariety which give play to the inven-tive skill of the
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