[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XII.--Fifth printing. Bright Orange.

(The fourth printing, not shown, is a similar small block, printing a faint tone over the road in the foreground.)]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XIII.--Sixth printing. Indian Red. Gradation.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XIV.--Seventh printing. Green. Printed flat.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XV.--Eighth printing. Bluish green. Gradation.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XVI.--Reproduction of a colour print by Hiroshige.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XVII.--Reproduction of a portion of the print shown on the preceding page, actual size, showing the treatment of the foliage and the expressive drawing of the tree trunk and stems.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XVIII.--Reproduction of another portion of the print shown on page 111 (actual size), showing the expressive use of line in the drawing of the distant forms.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XIX.--Reproduction of a colour print by Hiroshige.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XX.--Reproduction of a portion (actual size) of the print on the preceding page, showing treatment of tree forms and distance.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XXI.--Reproduction of a colour print by Hiroshige.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XXII.--Reproduction of a portion (actual size) of the print on the preceding page, showing treatment of tree and blossom.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XXIII.--The Tiger. Reproduction of a colour print by J. D. Batten.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Plate XXIV.--Lapwings. Reproduction of a colour print by A. W. Seaby.]

BOOKS OF REFERENCE

"Tools and Materials ill.u.s.trating the j.a.panese Method of Colour Printing." A descriptive catalogue of a collection exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Price Twopence. Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogues. 1913.

"The Colour Prints of j.a.pan." By Edward F. Strange. The Langham Series of Art Monographs. London.

"j.a.panese Colour Prints." By Edward F. Strange. (3rd Edition.) Victoria and Albert Museum Handbooks. London.

"j.a.panese Wood Engravings." By William Anderson, F. R. C. S. London, Seeley & Co., Ltd. New York, Macmillan & Co. 1895.

"j.a.panese Wood-cutting and Wood-cut Printing." By T. Tokuno. Edited and annotated by S. R. Kochler. Report of the Smithsonian Inst.i.tution, Washington, for the year ending June 30, 1892. Issued in pamphlet form by the U.S.A. National Museum, Washington. 1893.

Other works containing descriptions and references to the craft of wood-block printing in the Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, are the following:--

"The Industries of j.a.pan." By J. J. Rein. (Paper, pp. 389.) London.

1889.

"Bungei Ruisan," By Yoshino Sakakibara. Essays on j.a.panese 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.) Tokyo. 1878.