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 37
o U O< o CO wwPi H w H lO JAPANESE ILLUSTRATION. but abandoned it for that of the Ukiyo-ye.He published a large number of illustratedbooks of design, plant form, and illustra-tions to poems, legends, etc., and left a sonnamed Hokoku, or Yasukuni. We give(p. ii) an example of his treatment of the … rOko. by tachibana morikuni (1714). figure from a book of drawing lessons,Yehon Oshukubai, published at Naniwa(Osaka) in 1740, which also contains somefine studies of birds and illustrations ofheroes of Japanese history, drawn withsingular force and dramatic power ; whileon p. 13 is a superb…
Art, Japanese · Wood-engraving · Illustration of books
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