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 164
isery to humiliation. How-ever, the captain, hearing of the affair, him-self purchased the other copy. These paintings, which would now be ofalmost inestimable value, have never beentraced. M. Gonse has made search in themost likely place, the museum at the Hague,but without effedt. M. de Goncourt,… … HOKUSAI AND HIS PUPILS. 65 that time for designs for book illustrationwas about five or six shillings each. In 1799 Hokusai published one of thebest known of his books of landscapes, theAzuma Asobi (Walk around the Capitalof the East, i.e., Yedo). This book wasfirst issued as one volume in black…
Art, Japanese · Wood-engraving · Illustration of books
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