Shin bijutsukai / [Kamisaka Sekka, Furuya Kōrin hen]

1902 · Kyōto-shi : Unsōdō · 13 pictures

Shin bijutsukai is a 1902 Japanese pattern book published in Kyoto by Unsōdō, compiled by Kamisaka Sekka with a section devoted to Furuya Kōrin, aimed at designers and decorative artists. Its pictures are flat, repeating textile-like motifs in bold colour: clouds, waves, ferns and cranes rendered in stylised outlines, offering designers ready models for surface pattern, borders and wrapping papers that blend Japanese motifs with Art Nouveau curves.

Arts, Japanese -- European influences · Art nouveau -- Japan · Design -- Japan · Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) -- Japan · Decoration and ornament -- Japan -- Themes, motives -- Periodicals · Japonism · Decoration and ornament -- Japan -- Periodicals

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