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A history of Japanese colour-prints (1910)

Seidlitz, Woldemar von, 1850-1922, Dyer, Anne Heard, Tripler, Grace · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company; London, W. Heinemann · leaf 150

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s. Most of these works are executed in a few bold colours,broadly laid on, often without any sort of contour. The artist,of whom we shall have more to say at the end of the chapter onKiyonaga, is in this line of work the continuer of Morikuni. We have similar sketches in rapid brushwork dating… … BEGINNING OF WOOD-ENGRAVING 6i Mitsunobu ^ and many others. Illustrated books by Mitsunobuappeared in Osaka, 1724, in Kioto, 1750, and a book withscenes of war in 1756. 2, MoRONOBu AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.—The real historyof Japanese wood-engraving does not begin until the seventiesof the…

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