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 442
to execution, to makea little poem before dying. Hokusais was this : Now my soul, a will o the wisp, can flit at easeover the summer fields ! Greatly was this great artist rewarded for his un-ceasing and laborious cultivation of his gift. Hispaintings, fine as some of them are, represent him256… … UKIYOYfi AND COLOUR-PRINT less truly and far less adequately than the wood-cuts made from his designs. In the Mangwa,*or collection of studies and sketches, a series pub-lished in fifteen volumes, the first of which ap-peared in 1817 or earlier, the vast range of hisobservation is displayed.…
Painting -- China · Painting -- Japan
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