The colour-prints of Japan : an appreciation and history by Strange Edward Fairbrother 1862-1929

Author:Strange, Edward Fairbrother, 1862-1929
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Color prints, Japanese, Ukiyoe, Wood-engravers -- Japan Registers
Publisher: London : A. Siegle
Published: 1906-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

42 THE COLOUR-PRINTS OF JAPAN

brown which he used in the set of the " Views of the Loochoo Islands " ; or the green, blue, yellow and brown which distinguish his " Thirty-six Views of Fuji" and other sets of landscape : or again, the tenderness with which he ranges the whole gamut of blues and greens in the great designs of the carp.

As a draughtsman pure and simple Hokusai is also a master of the first order. His line is a miracle in its varying force and suggestion. Fine as a single hair, or swelling imperceptibly till it becomes a broken play of light and shade or a mass of solid black, it still flows unworried and without hesitation on its appointed course. In the gift of facile and immediate expression of the artist's thought by means of simple drawing, it is possible that the world has never seen the equal of Hokusai.

The great personal qualities of the man are also by no means to be ignored. It is no slight tribute to his reputation that almost alone among the painters of the Popular School, these details of his life should have been preserved with something like fulness. They show him to have been proud even in the extremest poverty—too proud to let his dignity as a craftsman suffer under any stress of mere physical need. He made many friends. His pupils and followers were

HOKUSAI

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