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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 85

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istic and inartistic competitors alike. In some cases, indeed, the sketches gained in comicality by the Fig. I r. Toba-yd The courage of security. From a drawing by Miyagawa Choki, in the British Museum collection (i8th century). startling violations of art canons in which their creators indulged,… … Fig, 12. Toba-yd. “ Gratis anhelans, multa agendo, nihil agens.” From a drawing by Miyagawa Choki. (fig. lo, 1 1, and 12) w'ili give a fair idea both of the peculiarities of drawing and the kind of humour that often inspired the artist. In the first, an attenuated coolie carrying an uncompleted…

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