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

by: Bowie, Henry P., d. 1920; Iwaya, Sazanami, 1870-1933; Hirai, Kinz d. 1936

Publication date: 1911

Topics: Painting, Japanese

Publisher: San Francisco : P. Elder and Company

Collection: ontario_college_art_design; toronto

Digitizing sponsor: The Ontario College of Art & Design

Contributor: Dorothy H. Hoover Library, Ontario College of Art & Design

Language: English

"Illustrations from paintings especially executed for the author, by a number of distinguished artists of Japan, explanatory drawings by Shimada Sekko."

Plates I to VIII accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress; plate IX to LXVI, printed on both sides and accompanied by 9 leaves with descriptive letterpress

Robert Holmes Collection

Personal experiences.--Art in Japan.--Laws for use of brush and materials.--Laws governing conception and execution.--Canons of the aesthetics in painting.--Subjects for Japanese painting (gwa dai)--Signatures and seals (rakkwan and in)--Explanation of headbands