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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.