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    The Pictorial Arts Of Japan.* I

    I to equal the contents of Mr . Anderson ' s I I forming magnificen Part t portfolio I . of the , which work is . The before book is ,

    I I uniform ' Ornamental with Arts Mr of . Japan Audsley . ' Mr s . well Anderson -known

    I I general in the his opening tory of part the country of his , review deals min of ut the ely ,

    I with the story of the development of its art : I a story which will be perused with absorbing

    I i nations nterest as by well everyone as their who customs studies the and arts the of ir 1 modes , of expressing sympathy , with the I beauties of natureThe first chapter is

    de-. I 7 oted to prehistoric art , in which is described

    the originals of the Japanese people as determined by the most recent archaeological

    re-. searches . The first historic period ( that is to say , from the fifth to the latter part of the

    ninth century ) forms the subject-matter of Chapter II ., the contents being a consideration

    ot of the thn origin m-imrin , real ron . 1 or cw nominal nnmiiVAl , of of the ihfi dmerent fliflforftnt . branches of art in the earliest period of cultureincluding keramic artictorial art

    sculpture , in stone , wood , and metal , p , lacquer , , embroidery , < fcc . As an example of the kind of curioiiH information orivpn bv ] VTr . Anderarrn .

    ^~ - — " —m ^^ , ^^ ^ r ^ ^ ¦ r *^ V ^ ^^»^^«^ h ^^ F . . ^ *^^ ^* ^^ ^ k ^^ ^>* ^^* ^^ T ^ K V ^ feH ^ k ^^ ~ ^^ " * ^^ *^ V ^ k ^ W ^^ fc *» ^^^ B i « ^ ^ H ^ ^ " ^» M * ^ " ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ r ^ l ^ ^ h ,. ^ ^ ¦« ^ h we quote the following : * The mirror ,

    according to Mr . INlnagawa , was first made in ( Japan a . d . 71 ill -130 the ) - ^» or reign in other of the words Empero in le r genda Keiko r ]

    times m ^^^ v — ^ . ¦ — — It assumes — , ^ , y two — p rinci - pal , - ^ forms — ^^^^» ¦ . — ^^ " - ^— " ^» - The ^— « ^^^ y W first is a plain circular disc . polished upon

    , one surface , and usually displaying an emblematical design upon the reverse . Of this

    variety , some are provided with handles , while othersusually of much larger size

    have no such appendage , and may be sup , - ported by a carved stand representing

    conventionalised clouds or waves , the mirror then probably symbolising the full moon .

    The second form is commonly small , not more than four inches in diameter ; it has no handle

    and presents on the reverse an aperture for a , cordtraversing a raised portion of the desi .

    All are , Chinese in oriin . gn The second period g brings the work up to

    the p ILfl ic . K torial ^ VKJi latter XCt . 'X C art part * A U it 111 of describes U the . CO ^/ l fourteenth . l k / CO the \ J ± IK > work HV century 1 A . of KJX . the UJ . In AC ?

    artist Kose * no Kanaoka , and the various school schools , , su Toba ch as -ye the ' caricatures Buddhist and school the , Yamato Chinese

    — . ' ¦ — -- — = •—— —¦ — — — . — . . .- ... , f school , besides continuing the references to keramic artwood and metal sculture

    lacquer , & c . , The last quarter of the p eigh- , teenth century is reached in the third period .

    Pictorial art is the theme , the descriptions dealing with the Chinese school , the Sesshiu

    and Kano branches of the Chinese school , | the Yamato-Tosa schoolUkiyo-ye' Riti or

    I popular school , and the Korin , school . This ! closes the present instalment of the historical

    treatise . Jn the present part there are i twenty magnificent lates in

    chromo-litho-: graphy , photogravure p ., and wood engraving . i A very large number of beautifully-executed

    woodcuts adorn the text . The two chief characteristic examples we here supply are from

    drawings by Korin ( seventeenth century ) , engraved in the Korin hiahu dzu . It should

    be noted that the plates are printed with exceptional success on very fine plate paper .

    X •/ A JL X Mr . Anderson ' s work is bound to become a standard authority upon the art and historical

    ft / X development of the country in which he

    profitably spent so large a share of his life .

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1886, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011886/page/9/