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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 221

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Of these the mostnoteworthy are undoubtedly the variouspublications of woodcuts from the designsof the great lacquer artist Korin (died in1716, aged fifty-six). Professor Andersonenumerates several of these, and we re- ^ From the colle6lion of Mr. Charles Holme ■ Anderson, British Museum Catalogue,… … DESIGN FOR LACQUER. BY HO-rrSU, AFTER KORIN. Two supplementary volumes w^ere issued in1826. Ho-itsu, says our authority, was a son ofthe Daimyo, Sakai Uta no Kami, and chiefpriest of the Nishi Hongwanji temple atKyoto, who, after having studied all the

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