Modelling in stucco was extensively used.
Attached to it are schools for the study of architecture, ornamental drawing and modelling.
If the disciples of this school could shake off the Sesshu tradition of strong outlines and adopt the Kano Motonobu revelation of modelling by mass only, their work would stand on a high place.
The latter once exhibited inTkyO a silver game-cock with soft plumage and surface modelling of the most delicate character.
From the time when they began to cast bronze statues, Japanese experts understood how to employ a hollow, removable core round which the metal was run in a skin just thick enough for strength without waste of material; and they also understood the use of wax for modelling purposes.
