Posts Tagged ‘1952’

February 2

On this day in 1952 the writer received from William A. Dwiggins of Hingham, Massachusetts a limited edition printing of an excerpt from the pen of Hokusai, the remarkable 19th century Japanese draughtsman, book illustrator, painter, and wood engraver. The philosophy expressed in this fragment from the introduction to Hokusai‘s Hundred Views of Fuji unquestionably […]