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Chats on Japanese prints (1915)

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945 · London : T.F. Unwin · leaf 184

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an thatbetween them. The one is all grace, the other allforce; the one loves to linger in quiet gardens, theother drags us up to the icy heights of tragic crisis.Shunshos sense of dramatic composition was keen-;and, as we see in Plate 19, his ferocious actor-facespeer out with a vivid menace, his… … SHUNSHO : THE ACTOR NAKAMURA MATSUYE AS AWOMAN IN WHITE. Size II X 5j. Unsigned. SECOND PERIOD: POLYCHROME 181 perfect grace, but the utterly different super-realityof magnified passion. In repose they are likestatues; in action they have the vigour of thosenatural forces—waves, river currents,…

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