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wood and printed on paper in colors. It presents a row or line of the huge wrestlers of whom 

 we have spoken on a previous page. The chief point of interest in this illustration, considered 

 in an artistic sense, is, that, apart from its heing a successful specimen of printing in colors — a 

 process, by the way, quite modern among ourselves — there is a breadth and vigor of outline 

 compared with which much of our own drawing appears feeble, and, above all things, undecided. 

 Whatever the Japanese may lack as regards art, in a perception of its true principles, the style^ 



grace, and even a certain mannered dexterity which their drawings exhibit, show that they are 

 possessed of an unexpected readiness and precision of touch, which are the prominent 

 characteristics in this picture of the wrestlers. There is no stiffness or angularity about it. 

 There is also a picture of an amphitheatre, in which the wrestlers appear, which serves to 

 correct an error found in former writers as to Japanese ignorance of perspective. 



