The present writer had many occasions to watch Amitabha at work while preparing his plates. Patience and hard thinking backed by a desire to avoid easy solutions seemed to be his motto. Lines and tones played an important part in the shapes of images on his plates. The fragile quality of lines added to the poetic quality of imageries. The dark and light areas were worked out with extreme care in which multiple tones were created; thus making the entire plate rich ...
