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Excerpt from Artistic Japan, Vol. 2: Illustrations and Essays
The preface bears witness, besides, to the great estimation in which the artist was held, at any rate', among some of his contemporaries, whose opinion of him seems to coincide with ours. Hokusai, the writer says, is unlike any one else. While all his predecessors were more or less slaves to classic traditions and hard rules, he alone has allowed his brush to draw according to the feelings of his heart, and he executes what he sees with his eyes, which love nature. It is certain that this friendly admiration was but little exaggerated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
