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Chats on Japanese prints (1915)

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1946 · London : Benn · leaf 361

An illustration from Chats on Japanese prints, 1915, leaf 361 — FIFTH PERIOD: THE DOWNFALL 359 Until rather recently Hokusai was, for European spectators, as isolated and commanding a figure in the domain of Japanese art as Fuji is in the Japanese landscape. He was regarded as the one culminating and all-inclusive genius among Japanese painters and… … him the conviction that much of hokusai. this magical dexterity is some- what in the nature of a juggler's antics in a vaude- ville, and that his first burst of enthusiasm was not wholly warranted. Then, finally, he comes to perceive that there are qualities in Hokusai's work which, in spite of so…

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