BOOKS OF REFERENCE
The following works contain descriptions of the various technical processes mentioned above.
| REIN, J. J. The Industries of Japan. (Paper, p. 389.) (10×7.) London, 1889. | |
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| WASHINGTON: U.S.A. National Museum. Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ending 30 June, 1892. Japanese Wood-cutting and Wood cut Printing, by T. Tokuno. Edited and annotated by S. R. Koehler (p. 222). Illustrated. (9×9.) Washington, 1893. | |
| WOOD-CUT Printing in Water-colours, after the Japanese manner. Illustrated. (In The Studio, vol. 3, pp. no, 144. 1894.) | |
| LONDON: Victoria and Albert Museum Handbooks. Japanese Colour-prints, by Edward F. Strange. (Technique, chapter xi.) 3rd edition. (8×6.) London, 1910. | |
| SAKAKIBARA, Yoshino. Bungei Riusan. Essays on Japanese literature, with additional chapters describing the manufacture of paper and the processes of printing and engraving. (The Museum copy has MS. translations of the portion relating to engraving.) Cuts. 8 vols. (10×7.) ToÌkyoÌ,1878. |
NOTE.—The Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design includes a large collection of Japanese Colour-prints and Drawings, which can be seen on application in the Students' Room (Room 71) at any time (except on Sundays) when the Museum is open to the public.
HOKUSAI.—Original drawing for the key-block of an unpublished colour-print in the series called “The Hundred Poets explained by the Nurse.” A junk, with straw sail, conveying three travellers; at the bow a breaking wave. At the top right-hand corner is a poem by Hoshoji no Nyudo Saki no Kwampaku Daijo Daijin. O'er the wide sea plain, / As I row and look around, It appears to me / That the white waves, far away, / Are the ever-shining sky. From a drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum. J. D. 1447.
