A timeline for the introduction of synthetic dyestuffs in Japan during the late Edo and Meiji periods
Abstract A widespread belief among scholars and connoisseurs of the Japanese color woodblock print (nishiki-e) holds that synthetic dyes were imported from the West in the 1860s, and soon came to be used for all nishiki-e colorants during the Meiji period. These “cheap imported aniline dyes” are wid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Heritage Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-018-0187-0 |