A History of Japanese Colour-Prints [Color]

xvi, 207 pp. Plates throughout, including 16 in full color. CONTENTS: General Considerations; A Survey of the History of Japanese Painting; The Beginning of Wood-Engraving--Black and White (1582-1743); The Development of Colour-Printing (1743-1765); The First Flowering of the Polychrome Print; The Culmination: Kiyonaga; The Period of Utamaro; Hokusai; The Remaining Artists of the Nineteenth Century; Bibliography; Alphabetical List of Signs; Index.