Excerpt from Japan: Its History, Traditions, and Religions, With the Narrative of a Visit in 1879, Vol. 2 of 2

Our opportunities of studying Japanese art - Temple art treasures - Studies in Kioto - Artistic Seances - Foreign derivation of the art - Government patronage - Early artists of distinction - Kano and his school - The Tobo school - Okio and the Shiyo Riu - Hokusai, the Japanese Hogarth - The schools of J apan - Professor Anderson upon Japanese design, composition, drawing, perspective, Chiaroscuro, and colour - The beauty of the human form not duly appreciated in Japan - Sir Rutherford Alcock on Japanese art - Frequent recurrence of pictorial subjects Legend of the cuckoo and the moon - Anticipated progress of the.

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