Author: Sato Unsho.
Title: [Shogaku Irozu Mondo].
Description: Nagoya, Keiundo 1878 (Meiji 11). 18x13cm publisher's wrapper (blotched); with block or stencil coloured colour wheel and colour chart. A pretty good copy, remarkably good for an old school book. ¶ Second printing maybe, a month after the first? This is very similar but not quite the same as the 'Irozu Mondo' prefixed as 'Gakko Hitsoyu' (school essentials) rather than 'Shogaku' (primary school) and if that's not confusing enough, this title apparently exists as three different books by different authors.Western colour theory for Japanese students. The colour chart and wheel are the same as the aforementioned 'Gakko Hitsoya ...' which I guess means that the theory traces back to Field's chromatics.

Keywords: art colour theory c19th Japan education children juvenile progess science meiji