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 284
of tools and materials deposited in theU. S. National Museum at Washington.^ The first point of importance is the choiceof wood. That most generally used is aspecies of cherry—the sakura—whichgives a grain of peculiar fineness and hard-ness. P>om this, planks are cut and planedto a smooth… … u Q TECHNIQUE. I I9 instead of following our modern pradlice ofcutting across it. The design is drawn with a brush on thinsemi-transparent paper [minogami or gam-pishi), and pasted, face downwards, on theblock, in order to avoid the difficulty ofreversal. If it is not now clearly visible,the paper…
Art, Japanese · Wood-engraving · Illustration of books
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