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Japanese illustrations; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan (1904)

Strange, Edward Fairbrother, 1862-1929 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 160

An illustration from Japanese illustrations; a history of the arts of wood-cutting and colour printing in Japan, 1904, leaf 160
the most graceful ofall the figure designers of his time. In1795 the signature Hishikawa Sori is firstmet with, and used with or without theprefix till about 1800. In 1794 he hadillustrated a novel under the name of Toki-taro Kako, and the signature also appearsat the foot of his prose work about… … HOKUSAI AND HIS PUPILS. 63 even farther back. The signature Hokusai,in various combinations seems to appearfirst in 1796, and was apparently continuedtill 1834, when he adopted the pseudonymMangi (ten thousand), and also the symbol\:^ (the svastica). These were used till hisdeath. In addition one…

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