Meiji-era designs: Shin-Bijutsukai (New Art)
Meiji-era designs: Shin-Bijutsukai (New Art)
Smithsonian Libraries has digitized two wonderful bound volumes of the publication Shin-Bijutsukai 新美術 (new art), “a periodical published 1896-1911, in 65 volumes, intended to provide novel and exciting designs for textile artists, potters, and other craft makers; this in response to domestic demand as well as increasing export needs.” (source)
“Shin-Bijustukai, The New Monthly Magazine of Various Designs by The Famous Artists of To-Day”
There are some wonderful examples of the work in the links below, but here is a sample:
Meiji-era designs: Shin-Bijutsukai “New Art”
Meiji-era designs: Shin-Bijutsukai “New Art”
Meiji-era designs: Shin-Bijutsukai “New Art”
Meiji-era designs: Shin-Bijutsukai “New Art”
Meiji-era designs: Shin-Bijutsukai “New Art”
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