History of art . Utamaro (1753-1806). The Mirror, print. {Louvre.) 154 MEDIAEVAL ART engraving in colors which was invented by Kiyonobu(1667-1729)—all this protected and helped along theactivity of the school of the people. Netsukes, pot-teries, lacquers, inros, and surimonos were sold in everybazaar. Prints invade the houses of the middle classes andof the common people. Views of the sea, of the moun-. •^-di^fm. HiROSHiGE (1797-1858). The Shower, print.{H. Vever Collection.) tains and the woods, the dresses of passing women,pennants, signs, colored-paper lanterns, the wholenoisy, bustling, tw
History of art . Utamaro (1753-1806). The Mirror, print. {Louvre.) 154 MEDIAEVAL ART engraving in colors which was invented by Kiyonobu(1667-1729)—all this protected and helped along theactivity of the school of the people. Netsukes, pot-teries, lacquers, inros, and surimonos were sold in everybazaar. Prints invade the houses of the middle classes andof the common people. Views of the sea, of the moun-. •^-di^fm. HiROSHiGE (1797-1858). The Shower, print.{H. Vever Collection.) tains and the woods, the dresses of passing women,pennants, signs, colored-paper lanterns, the wholenoisy, bustling, twinkling fairyland of the Japanese,permitted the engravers of the peoples prints toexpend, in miraculous profusion, the fantasy and powerof their genius as colorists, dramatists, and story-tellers. Europe came to know Japan by this popu-larized art, by this infinite subdividing of the centralforce that Sesshiu, Motonobu, and Korin revealed totheir country for the glory of man. It is not altogetherthe fault of Europe if, in unpacking its boxes of tea,its lacquer caskets, and its bamboo furniture, it hardly JAPAN 155 saw more at first than the slightly comical exterior ofthe Japanese soul. For only the externals were atfirst conveyed by that rising sea of little colored paperson which stretched out parades of screen figures inepic posture; gnarled landscapes; warriors streaked
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