Painting in the Far East : an introduction to the history of pictorial art in Asia especially China and Japan (1913)
Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 336
unites the figures, the harmony of rare colours,the animation, the atmosphere of romance anddiscovery, of youth and experience at once, thesuggested perfume of flowers upon the air, allcombine to make what is, in its own kind, amasterpiece. In 1644 the weakened empire, corrupted bythe court… … THE MING PERIOD IN CHINA dangerously on the northern frontier. The Manchuscame, and they came to remain. They put an endto the Ming rule, possessed themselves of Peking,and enforced on the Chinese the wearing of thepig-tail in token of subjection. 191 CHAPTER XIII. THE KANO SCHOOL INTHE SIXTEENTH…
Painting -- China · Painting -- Japan
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