File:The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By (14745065916).jpg

Identifier: uncivilizedraces02wood (find matches)
Title: The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
he effect. a square bowl closed by a lid. The bowl con-tains India ink, and into the hollow stemthe pen is passed. When not in use the penis slipped into the stem, and the lid is closedand kept down by twisting over it the stringwhich hangs from the end of the case,and which is decorated with a ball ofagate. One reason for the excellence of Jap-anese art is, that the artists, instead of copy-ing from each other, invariably go to naturefor their models. They have teachers justas we do, but the great object of these pro-fessors is to teach their pupils how to pro-duce the greatest effect with the fewest lines.Book after book may be seen entirely filledwith studies for the guidance of the youngartists, in which the master has depictedvarious scenes with as few lines as possible.One of these books is entirely filled withstudies of falling rain, and, monotonous asthe subject may seem, no two drawings arein the least alike, and a separate and forci-ble character is given to each sketch. An-
Text Appearing After Image:
CAPTURE OF THE TRUANTS. We cannot take leave of this remarkablepeople without a few remarks upon thestate of art among them. The Japanese areevidently an art-loving people. Fond asthey are of the grotesque in art, they arecapable of appreciating its highest quali-ties; and, indeed, a Japanese workman canscarcely make any article of ordinary usewithout producing some agreeable combina-tion of lines in color. Even the pen, or rather the brush, withwhich they write is enclosed in an ingeniousand decidedly artistic case. The case is madeof bronze, and consists of a hollow stem and other book has nothing but outlines oflandscape scenery, while some are entirelyfilled with grass-blades, some bending in thewind, others beaten down by rain, and othersflourishing boldly upright. The bamboo isanother favorite subject; and so highly dothe Japanese prize the skill displayed by amaster, that they will often purchase at ahigh price a piece of paper with nothing onit but a few strokes of the brush,

Note About Images