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On the laws of Japanese painting : an introduction to the study of the art of Japan (1911)

Bowie, Henry P., d. 1920, Iwaya, Sazanami, 1870-1933, Hirai, Kinz d. 1936 · San Francisco : P. Elder and Company · leaf 128

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Ja, KAN, zoKu, RAi. Ja rcfcrs to attempted orig-inality in a painting without the ability to give itcharadler, departing from all law to produce some-thing not reducible to any law or principle. Kan isproducing only superficial, pleasing effedl withoutany power in the brush ^roke—a… … Chapter Five CANONS OF THE ^ESTHETICS OF JAPANESE PAINTING ONE of the mo^ important principles in theart of Japanese painting—indeed, a funda-mental and entirely diiSlindtive character-i^ic—is that called living movement, sei do, orkokoro mochif it being, so to say, the transfusioninto the work of…

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