Hōkoku zushū / hissha Sawada Seiichirō, Sanfuranshisuko Bankoku Hakurankai Kyoto Shuppin Kyōkai : [volume 2]

1915 · Kyoto : Unsōdō · 22 pictures

A 1915 Kyoto publication from Unsōdō, volume two of a Japanese colour-print album prepared by Sawada Seiichirō for the Kyoto exhibitors at the San Francisco Panama-Pacific exposition. Its plates show ceramic vessels rendered in soft, layered colour with blurred washes, flat silhouettes and loose glaze effects, giving a designer a clear model for painterly vessel forms, muted greens and earthy browns, and simplified outlines.

Color prints, Japanese -- 20th century · Wood-engraving, Japanese -- 20th century

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