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

Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 45

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JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS 3i Kiyonaga, it reached its highest point. With Kiyonaga was asso- ciated Kiyotsune, a less successful disciple of the school, and the Torii line closed near the end of the century with Kiyomine. The … Fig. 13- — A Chinese Sage. Engraved from a sketch by Kano Tanyu in the Gzva-ko sen-ran (1740). blocks employed in printing were gradually increased in number to seven, and, although in later times as many as thirty printings were required to complete a picture, the added complexity of the process…

Wood-engraving, Japanese · Color prints, Japanese

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