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Japanese wood engravings : their history, technique and characteristics (1895)

Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 22

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JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS IO fervour and liberality of devotees, to whom impressions were presented in response to a suitable offering ; but there is an engraved plank of willow wood still preserved at a temple in Shibamata which has a … Fig. 2. Reduced facsimile of a Korean woodcut in the Sam-Kang-h'en’g-sil \ 14.S1. (. Author's Collection.) reputation of a less assailable kind. It is attributed to the great priest Nichiren ( 1 222-1 282), the founder of an important sect of Buddhists, and is evidently the work of an amateur more…

Wood-engraving, Japanese · Color prints, Japanese

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