Catalogue of prints and books, illustrating the history of engraving in Japan. Exhibited in 1888 (1888)
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · [London] Printed for the Burlington fine arts club · leaf 13
e evidence in the case of a few is unassail-able. It is at any rate beyond doubt that for many centuries before thedate of the first book illustrated with wood cuts, xylography in its two chiefapplications was carried on within the precincts of Buddhist temples for thepurpose of reproducing texts… … Fig. 2. Reduced facsimile of a wood engraving attributed to the Buddhistpriest, Nichiren (i 222-1282). No. 1. xi
Engraving, Japanese
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