The colour-prints of Japan : an appreciation and history
Edward Fairbrother Strange's 1906 history of Japanese colour-prints, published in New York by Scribner, is an appreciation of the print artists and their work, written for readers of Western art. The plates show Japanese woodblock prints of women, actors and courtly figures, reproduced as small pale pages with a caption under each. A designer might take their tall narrow panel format, flat patterned kimono robes and sparse grey backgrounds as compositional ideas.
