Lotus : special holiday number in memoriam James A. McNeill Whistler
Lotus is a 1903 special holiday number issued in Boston by Bunkio Matsuki as a memorial to the American painter James McNeill Whistler, aimed at readers interested in Japanese art. The four photographs show Japanese garden stone work: a pagoda-like stone lantern, a carved Buddhist figure standing among leaves, a standing statue flanked by guardian lion dogs, and a lantern beside a curved plank bridge. A designer could draw on their weathered granite textures, the layered lantern silhouettes, and the naturalistic garden settings with bamboo fencing and foliage.
