Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 238
ng hisunsympathetic audience, Kiyosai stood, or rather knelt,before his silk, fiercely grasping the brush, holdingit downwards with all his fingers round it and thumbturned outwards. He looked like a god as he kneltthere, gripping his brush and staring at the silk—he wasseeing his picture. He… … Painters and their Methods along the floor towards the spectators, and, saying That is Kiyosai, left the house in disgust. Thedignity of the little man cowed his spectators. Everyone unconsciously felt the magnetism of the man, andrealised that a master had been among them. 73 AN AVENUE OF LANTERNS
Art -- Japan · Japan -- Social life and customs 1868-1912
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