Japanese wood engravings : their history, technique and characteristics (1895)
Anderson, William, 1842-1900 · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 89
JAPANESE WOOD ENGRAVINGS 69 bent ye” of Idzumiya Gonshiro in 1695; (2) Shoyenji , a pink dye imported from China, supposed to be cochineal. It is the principal red in the prints of the best period ; (3) Shido or beni gar a, red oxide of iron, prepared from a native ore ; (4) Van, red oxide of lead,… … Fig. 55. — The Tools of the Engraver. From “ Japanese Woodcutting hy 1 . Tokuno. many prints of the last century : it tends to blacken on exposure ; (5) Shin , vermilion, originally imported from China ; (6) Todo , a cheap carmine imported from Europe, and much used during the last fifty years.
Wood-engraving, Japanese · Color prints, Japanese
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