A Brush with Animals [Hardback]: Japanese Paintings 1700-1950

by Robert Schaap

Japan has a long and rich tradition of using animal imagery in works of art. A Brush with Animals. Japanese Painting 1700-1950 gives an overview of Japanese animal painting, covering some 250 years, with an emphasis on works by artists of the naturalistic Shij? School. It illustrates the wonderful variety of animals that figure in Japanese iconography, including the 12 animals of the zodiac and many mythological creatures. The reader is thus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9070216078
• ISBN13: 9789070216078
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Brill Hotei
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.0" x 11.9"