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The pictorial arts of Japan. With a brief historical sketch of the associated arts, and some remarks upon the pictorial art of the Chinese and Koreans (1886)

Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 350

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APJ^L/CATIONS OF PICTORIAL ART 143 rolls at a much earlier period ; an undoubted example, dated in 1504, being included in the Satow Collection (British Museum). These early efforts were not devoid of a certain artistic skill, and were quite equal to the contemporary work of the Chinese, but gave… … remarkable power to be afterAvards attained by the Japanese engraver. The art. moreover, for a long time remained almost stationary. 1 he Hogen Monogafari and the Heiji Monogatari, printed in 1626 {Author’s Collection), are inferior to those of the earlier volumes. '* The illustrated histories,…

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