Show thumbnail thumb nail nau pictures picture in collections centuries old to he be seen in both china and japan are specimens of the most remarkable drawings in the world pictures of all kinds drawn with the thumb nail nai L the nails of the thumb on the left hand band of the artists of these are allowed to grow to an enormous length sometimes to a foot i or eig eighteen h teen inches and are arc then pa pared red down to a pen shaped point dipping this oddly constructed pen in beautiful vermilion or sky blue ink the only kinds of inks used in these sacred thumbnail thumb nail drawings the artist gracefully outlines his work occasionally the thebold bold touches from the studio of a master in this department of high art are life size and are sketched by a few sweeps of the artists arm arin like other pictures and sketches of the orient these sacred thumbnail thumb nail pictures are mounted and an d rolled up like scrolls |