20th CENTURY SHIN AND SOSAKA HANGA JAPANESE WOODBLOCKS WHAT WHY The Meiji Era, 1868 to 1912, was a very bad time for Woodblock Print Artists in Japan. The Established Order of Master and Student was...
The practise of storing books flat on the shelves in medieval times probably gave rise to the decoration of the closed book's fore edges as a quick visual method of identifying the volumes. From the Sixteenth...