Japanese wood engravings : their history, technique and characteristics (1895)
Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 73
60 JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS have studied the condition of the country in the disturbed period that preceded, and for a time followed, the downfall of the usurping Shogu- nate to account for the evil that had befallen the arts of peace. … Fig. 29.—Reduced from a woodcut after Kikuchi Yosai, in the Zenken Kojitsu (c. 1840). SrxtH PERIOD. Of the latest period, from the death of Hokusai to the present time, there is only a little to say. It began under very unfavourable auspices, for the albums of Isai (Fig. 30), the landscape volumes
Color prints, Japanese · Wood-engraving · Wood-engraving -- Japan
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