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World of Fine Arts (Bijutsu Sekai) : [volume 7]

Watanabe, Seitei, 1851-1918 · 1891 · Tokyo : Shun’yōdō 春陽堂 · 9 pictures

World of Fine Arts (Bijutsu Sekai), volume 7, a Japanese illustrated album printed in Tokyo in 1891 by Shun'yōdō and credited to the painter Watanabe Seitei, aimed at art students and collectors. Its pages are ink and brush paintings of waterfalls, rocks, trees, moonlit landscapes, a robed figure, an archer and a dragon, with stamped seals beside each image; a designer might take its spare, economical brushwork and generous empty space as models for minimal composition.

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