Edmond de Goncourt masterfully exposes the history of Japanese art from the Buddhist School to the School of Life, including the Tosa School and the Kano School. I could add details that have been better known since then; but I will only point out the extreme continuity of Japanese art. Nothing can give a better idea of this than the representation of faces, especially the woman's face. Since the earliest antiquity, we have found this mask motionless,...