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Cover of: On the laws of Japanese painting by Henry P. Bowie
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Cover of: On the laws of Japanese painting by Henry P. Bowie

On the laws of Japanese painting
an introduction to the study of the art of Japan
by Henry P. Bowie, with prefatory remarks by Iwaya Sazanami and Hirai Kinza ...

Published 1911 by P. Elder and Company in San Francisco .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

"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 letter-press; plates IX to LXVI printed on both sides and accompanied by 9 leaves with descriptive letterpress.

Classifications

Library of Congress
ND1050 .B6

The Physical Object

Pagination
3 p. l., v-xv p., 2 l., 3-117 p., 1 l.
Number of pages
117

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6539313M
Internet Archive
onlawsofjapanese00bowiuoft
LC Control Number
12000706
OCLC/WorldCat
492447
Library Thing
897880

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