Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 3. (Budapest, 1975)

FERENCZY, László: Traditions and new trends in the Japanese art of the Meiji era

•ours, above them cranes flying to two directions, black and white threads are employed. The pattern is repeated in four-band rapports and was probably hand-woven. In another silk cut off from an about seventy cm wide roll the green karakusa pattern is bordered by thin threads in the natural colour silk ground. Between them ho-o birds are rendered flying upwards and downwards, alternating by the bands. The birds are woven in gay blue, red and green feathers .{Figure 13). The survey of the art of the Meiji are was completed by coloured wood block prints in the traditional technique, made by the late followers of the Hokusai school in landscape series, as well as woodcuts portraying Europeans, and w

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ith books printed around the turn of the century and illustrated by woodcuts and steel engravings representing everyday life, tea-houses, gardens and kimono patterns.