Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of the Japanese colour-print artists
Impressions of Ukiyo-ye is a 1905 San Francisco survey of Japanese colour-print artists, written by Dora Amsden and published by P. Elder and Company for an English-speaking audience of collectors and art readers. Its reproductions are plates after woodblock prints, showing courtesans, actors, a seashore with a fishing figure, and a figure in a patterned robe, with tonal ink work and textured paper; a designer might take their flat patterned kimono motifs, economical line work and spare backgrounds as reference.
