Studio: international art (5.1895)

Japdriese Wood- Carving

A whetstone of the same quality as the finishing
stone, but with curved hollows, used for sharpen-
ing the curved blades (fig. 5).

Whetstones, of the same nature as the finishing
stone, used for sharpening the inside surfaces of
the curved blades (fig. 6). The sections of both
ends of these are shown in the drawing.

The illustrations of the lessons which here follow
have been made by Mr. H. P. Clifford from the
actual carvings prepared in Tokio, and now in the
possession of the writer. These carvings are upon
pieces of a soft wood, of the uniform size of six 111i! hl Xv

inches square by about five-eighths of an inch thick.

FIRST YEAR QF INSTRUCTION.

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Lesson 4.—Ori Komi.—From Ori, to fold, and
Komi, to put into. A study of oblique lines and
triangles.

Set No. i.

Lesson i.—Jusen.—Vertical lines. These are
cut with the grain of the wood, and consist of com-
binations of the simplest form of incisions.

Lesson 2.—Osen.—Horizontal lines. These cor- Lesson 5. — Tasuki. — Intersecting lines. A

respond precisely with the lines given in Lesson 1, simple but useful lesson in the management of

but are cut against the grain of the wood. crossed lines.

h.p-c.

Lesson 3.—Ori Mawashi.—From Ori, to fold, Lesson 6.—Fret and key patterns. This lesson
and Maivashi, to turn. This lesson is a combina- is a combination of all the preceding ones, in which
tion of the two preceding ones. the patterns become somewhat more elaborate.

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