HISHIKAWA MORONOBU Moronobu, who was born probably in 1625 and died in 1695, was the first important Japanese artist to design prints. As a painter he is highly renowned. He illustrated many books and made a considerable number of single-sheet prints, which were all either in plain black or coloured by hand. His works are now very rare.6 LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 1 | Large sumi-yÉ (ink print). Matsukaze-Murasame; a nobleman and two ladies at the seashore watching two women dipping salt water in buckets. | | 2 | Sumi-yÉ. A man and a woman seated on the floor of a room. | | 3 | Sumi-yÉ. Woman reading from a book to a man reclining on the floor by her side. Near them a maid-servant and utensils containing refreshments. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR | 4 | Sumi-yÉ. Scene in the Yoshiwara. | TORII KIYONOBU Founder of the Torii line and one of the leading artists of the UkiyoÉ school. Inventor of the tan-yÉ, or prints coloured by hand with red lead (Japanese tan). He was born in 1664 and died on August 22, 1729. His style of drawing was characterized by great boldness and vigour. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 5 | Large tan-yÉ. The actor Dekijima Hanya as a woman seated upon a sakura tree in bloom. | | 6 | Small tan-yÉ. The actor Ikushima Daikichi as a woman holding two small dogs. | | 7 | Small tan-yÉ. The actor Kamimura Kichisaburo as a dancing-girl. | | 8 | Large hand-coloured print. The actor Ikushima Daikichi as an oiran on parade, followed by OÌ?tani Hiroji as a servant holding an umbrella over her. | | 9 | Tall hand-coloured print. The actor Bando Hikosaburo. | LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 10 | Urushi-yÉ. Ichikawa Monnosuke as a strolling player carrying a monkey on his back. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 11 | Urushi-yÉ. The elopement of Yaoya Hanbei and O-Chiya. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 12 | Urushi-yÉ. A dancing-girl. | TORII KIYOMASU Eldest son of Kiyonobu, whom he succeeded as the head of the Torii line. His work closely resembles that of his father. He was born about 1685 and died on January 2, 1764. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 13 | Large sumi-yÉ. An actors' boating party on the Sumidagawa. | | 14 | Large tan-yÉ. The actors Yoshizawa Ayame and Kanto Koroku. | | 15 | Large tan-yÉ. The actors Kanto Koroku and Ikushima Daikichi. | | 16 | Large beni-yÉ. Ichikawa DanjuÌ?roÌ? as an enraged warrior. | | 17 | Beni-yÉ. Onoe KikugoroÌ? in a female rÔle. | | 18 | Beni-yÉ. Scene from a drama. The actors Tomazawa SaijiroÌ? (on horseback), OÌ?tani Hiroji, and Segawa KikunojoÌ?. The beni has turned to a low-toned yellow. | | 19 | Urushi-yÉ. Scene from a drama. OÌ?tani Oniji (on horseback) threatening Sannogawa Ichimatsu in the rÔle of a woman who has seized his bridle rein. | | 20 | Beni-yÉ. Scene from a drama. Sawamura SojuÌ?roÌ? as Sasaki no SaburoÌ? and Nakamura TomijuÌ?roÌ? as Mago no Koroku. | FURUYAMA MOROMASA Pupil, and perhaps the son, of Moronobu. He devoted himself chiefly to painting, but designed a few prints, most of which are ukiyÉ, or perspective pictures, in the style of Okumura Masanobu. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 21 | Large hand-coloured ukiyÉ, or perspective print. A game of ken in a room in a nobleman's house. | OKUMURA MASANOBU One of the most eminent of the UkiyoÉ artists. His drawings were greatly admired for their rare combination of force and refinement, and he exercised wide influence over his contemporaries and successors to the end of the eighteenth century. He was the first artist to use blocks from which prints were coloured in flat tints. These were printed in the red known as beni, green, and black, and were known as beni-yÉ. He was also the first artist to make the tall, narrow pillar prints (ha-shira-yÉ), and was the inventor of the perspective prints which he called ukiyÉ. His true name was Okumura Genpachi, and he was commonly known as honya (bookseller) Genpachi, from the fact that he was the proprietor of a wholesale and retail book and print shop at the sign of the “red gourd” in Tori-shio choÌ?, Yedo. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 22 | Large sumi-yÉ. Woman seated by a writing-table, reading a book. | | 23 | Urushi-yÉ. Bando Hikosaburo as a warrior resisting the opening of a castle door. | | 24 | Tall beni-yÉ. A geisha playing upon a samisen. | | 25 | Large sumi-yÉ. A woman with a pet cat watching a man dip water from a chozubachi. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR | 26 | Large beni-yÉ. Segawa KikunojoÌ? as an oiran lighting her pipe at a hibachi in the hands of her kamuro, and Sannogawa Ichimatsu as a man holding an umbrella over her. | | 27 | Undivided beni-yÉ triptych. Street scene. A boy kneeling to put on a woman's geta; a man playing upon a shakuhachi; and another man carrying an umbrella. | | 28 | Undivided triptych. Three women carrying umbrellas. | OKUMURA TOSHINOBU Toshinobu, the son of Masanobu, was an artist of decided talent who died young. His known works, which resemble those of his father, are all urushi-yÉ, and were designed about 1730-1736. LENT BY A COLLECTOR | 29 | Ichimura Uzaemon as a dancing-girl. | | 30 | Woman dressing. | | 31 | Sanjo KentaroÌ? in a female rÔle. | TSUNEKAWA SHIGENOBU An early UkiyoÉ artist of whom little is known. His prints are extremely rare. LENT BY A COLLECTOR | 32 | Urushi-yÉ. Arashi Wakano in the rÔle of Shida no KotaroÌ?. | NISHIMURA SHIGENAGA Son of Shigenobu. Born in 1697 and died in 1756. An artist of ability who exercised marked influence upon the development of the school. His prints are very uneven in quality. [pg 35] LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 33 | Tall hand-coloured print. The actor Sannogawa Ichimatsu as a woman holding a folded letter. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR | 34 | Urushi-yÉ. Segawa Kikunojo as a woman holding a warrior's helmet. | | 35 | Beni-yÉ. Procession of the Corean ambassadors. | ISHIKAWA TOYONOBU One of the most important of the UkiyoÉ masters. Born in 1711, died in 1785. Pupil of Shigenaga, and probably of Masanobu whose style he closely assimilated. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 36 | Large beni-yÉ. The actors Segawa Kikunojo and Sannogawa Ichimatsu. | LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 37 | Wide print from three colour-blocks. Women and children at the seashore. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 38 | Tall hand-coloured print. Segawa KikunojoÌ? as a woman reading a letter. | | 39 | Two sheets from a beni-yÉ triptych. Musume carrying umbrellas. | LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 40 | Beni-yÉ. Mother and son. | | 41 | Print from three colour-blocks. Boys rolling a large snowball. | | 42 | Print from three colour-blocks. Man struggling with a refractory umbrella; a woman looking on. | [pg 36] TORII KIYOHIRO Pupil of Kiyomasu. His known works are exclusively beni-yÉ, executed from about 1745 to about 1755. LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 43 | Beni-yÉ. Nakamura HatsugoroÌ? as Sakura no SukÉ. | TORII SHIRO Known as Kiyonobu the second, all of his prints being signed Torii Kiyonobu. He was the eldest son of Kiyomasu. Worked from about 1740 to about 1755, when it is probable that his death occurred. Some of the most charming of the beni-yÉ prints are from his hand. LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 44 | Beni-yÉ. Yamamoto IwanojoÌ? as a woman dancing by a fox-trap in a rice field under a blossoming cherry tree. | TORII KIYOMITSU Second son of Kiyomasu, whom he succeeded as the head of the Torii line. An artist of distinction. Was the first to add a third colour-block to the original two. He was born in 1735 and died in 1785. After 1765 he designed only a few prints, and appears to have designed none later than about 1768. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 45 | Wide print from three colour-blocks. The NoÌ? performance of “Musume DoÌ?joÌ?ji.” | | 46 | Wide print from three colour-blocks. Daimyo procession game by women and children. | | 47 | Print from three colour-blocks. Iwai HanshiroÌ? as a woman reading a letter while seated upon a carabao. | | 48 | Beni-yÉ. Scene from a drama. Ichimura KamezoÌ? (standing) as Wakemi GoroÌ? and Nakamura TomijuÌ?roÌ? as Akoya. | SUZUKI HARUNOBU The central figure in UkiyoÉ and the eminent master under whose hand the art of colour-printing was brought to perfection in the sixties of the eighteenth century. He was a draughtsman of extreme elegance and power, and his works have a charm that is peculiarly their own. He died on July 7, 1770, when, says Shiba Kokan in his book “Kokan Kokai-ki,” he “had hardly passed his fortieth year.” LENT BY SAMUAL ISHAM. | 49 | Girl attendant in an archery gallery gathering up arrows. One sheet of a diptych. | | 50 | A young woman showing a caged bird to a young man seated before her, and surreptitiously taking a love letter from him. | | 51 | A vendor of fan mounts stopping to talk to a young woman standing in front of a shop. | | 52 | Hashira-yÉ. Woman writing a love letter. | | 53 | Hashira-yÉ. Woman holding a pet dog. | | 54 | Burlesque scene. Girls carrying Daikoku (the genius of wealth—one of the “Seven Fortune-beings”). | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 55 | Girls carrying Daikoku. A later impression with different colouring. | | 56 | An archer and two girls near a screen. Calendar for 1765. | | 57 | Young woman before a torii, carrying a hammer and nails with which to perform an incantation. | | 58 | Two young women on their way to the public bath-house through a storm of snow and rain. | | 59 | Two girls on a terrace near a torii, in the time of the cherry-blossoming. | | 60 | Two girls gathering mume flowers from a tree overhanging a wall. | | 61 | Woman reading a letter by the light of an andon (portable lamp with wind screen) which another woman is trimming. | | 62 | Geisha and a young girl standing on the bank near the rapids of the Tamagawa. | | 63 | Young woman seated in a window, conversing with another young woman seated on the floor and holding a picture-book. | | 64 | Young man removing snow from the geta of a young woman. | | 65 | Woman lying upon the floor of a room, reading a book, and another woman standing beside her, holding a pipe. | | 66 | Young woman seated on a veranda after her bath, having her back massaged by her maid. | | 67 | Young man talking to a girl through the bars of a window. | | 68 | A burlesque apparition of Fugen. Instead of the Buddhist divinity, a young woman seated on an elephant appears on a cloud before a priest kneeling in prayer. | | 69 | Lovers walking in the snow under an umbrella. One of Harunobu's most distinguished prints. | LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 70 | The Sleeping Elder Sister. First state. Early impression signed by the printer, Kyosen. | LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 71 | The Sleeping Elder Sister. Second state. Changes made in the blocks and colouring. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 72 | The Sleeping Elder Sister. Still later impression. Colouring changed again, and the number of blocks increased from ten to thirteen. | LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 73 | The Hole in the Wall. | | 74 | Mother holding her infant son. | | 75 | At the entrance gate. | | 76 | Mother taking her infant son from another woman and handing her a letter. | | 77 | Lovers in a palace. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 78 | Musume walking up a flight of steps leading to a temple. | | 79 | Lovers playing battledore and shuttlecock; the young man climbing a ladder to disengage the shuttlecock caught upon the branch of a mume tree. | | 80 | Hashira-yÉ. Woman in night attire standing by her bedside reading a letter. | SHIBA KOKAN An artist who is best known as a clever imitator of his master, Harunobu, whose signature he forged upon a number of prints. He also used the “goÌ?,” or studio name, Harushige in signing prints in the Harunobu manner. In later years he painted pictures in semi-European style, and made copper-plate engravings which were coloured by hand. He was born in 1747 and died in 1818. LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 81 | The courtyard of a house in the Yoshiwara. A woman reading a letter and a girl attendant standing beside her holding a tray. Signed Harunobu. | SHOSHOKEN This is the pseudonym of an artist of distinction whose identity has not been determined. His known works are calendar prints for 1765. LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 82 | Stout lady crossing a room in a palace supported by two attendants. The use of gold leaf is notable. | [pg 40] KITAO SHIGEMASA One of the noted artists of the school. Was famous for his skill as a calligrapher, being reputed to have no superior in his day in either of the “three capitals,” Yedo, Kyoto, or Osaka. His prints, which are rare, are generally of much distinction. He was born in 1740, and died in the second month of Bunsei 3 (February or March, 1820). LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 83 | Children's puppet show. | LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 84 | Beni-yÉ. Segawa KikunojoÌ? and Ichimura Uzaemon as Izumo no Okuni and Nagoya Sanza, two komuso, playing upon shaku-hachi. | ISODA KORYUSAI The most important pupil of Harunobu, whose style he followed closely in his early works. Later he developed a manner of his own. As a designer of pillar prints and of prints of birds, he was especially successful. He was a samurai and associated with samurai of the superior class. The director of the mint was one of his most intimate friends and patrons. About 1781 he gave up print-designing, devoted himself to painting, and was given the honorary title of Hokyo. The dates of his birth and death are not known. LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 86 | Hashira-yÉ. Musume leaping from the balcony of Kiyomidzu temple with an umbrella as a parachute. | | 87 | Woman standing on the engawa of a house, admiring snow-laden bamboo branches; back of her, a girl and a young boy looking through a window. | | 88 | A Yoshiwara beauty arranging flowers; two girl attendants looking on. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 89 | Hashira-yÉ. Musume carrying her infant brother. | | 90 | Hashira-yÉ. Young woman poling a boat in a lily-pond. | LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 91 | A Yoshiwara beauty on parade, attended by a girl and a boy. | | 92 | Hashira-yÉ. The bijin JuroÌ?jin. A young woman is represented in place of the long-life being whose attributes are a crane and a tortoise. | KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO A contemporary of Harunobu and one of the greatest of the UkiyoÉ artists. He was highly renowned in his day and had many pupils who became famous. Most of his prints were portraits of actors in character. He was born in 1726 and died on January 22, 1793. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 93 | Segawa Kikunojo as a woman holding a red fan. | | 94 | Two actors in character. The seated figure is DanjuÌ?roÌ?, the leading “star” of the Yedo stage. | LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 95 | Actor in a female rÔle. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 96 | Iwai HanshiroÌ? as a woman standing and holding a fan behind her. | | 97 | Yamashita Kinsaku in a female rÔle. | | 98 | Actor of the Ichikawa line in the rÔle of Shibaraku at the Ichimura theatre. | | 99 | OÌ?tani Hiroji as an Amazake vendor. | | 100 | Hashira-yÉ. Nobleman carrying a court lady on his back. Probably a parody upon the suicide of Ohan and Choyaemon. | | 101 | Wide hashira-yÉ. The Woman in Red. | IPPITSUSAI BUNCHOÌ? An artist of samurai rank who, for a few years, designed actor prints in the manner of Shunsho, which have great distinction of style and colour. He was celebrated also as a writer of comic odes. He died on May 18, 1796. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 102 | Bando Hikosaburo as a woman of the Yoshiwara talking to a group of men through the misÉ. | | 103 | Nakamura TomijuÌ?roÌ? as Josan no Miya. | LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 104 | A Yoshiwara beauty accompanied by her kamuro (girl attendant) bearing a cage of fireflies. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 105 | Ichikawa KorazoÌ? as a man carrying an actor's dressing-case. | LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 106 | Scene from a drama. Yamashita Kinsaku as a woman holding a roll of paper, conversing with Ichikawa KomazoÌ?, who holds a letter in his hand. | KATSUKAWA SHUNKOÌ? Pupil of Shunsho and generally regarded as his most talented follower. His career as a print-designer was cut short by a stroke of paralysis when he was in his forty-fifth or forty-sixth year, but he lived for about [pg 43] forty years thereafter as a recluse at Zenfukuji temple, Azabu, Yedo, where he died in 1827. LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 107 | Iwai Hanshiro in a female rÔle. | | 108 | The actor Ichikawa Monnosuke. | | 109 | Nakamura TomijuÌroÌ? as a tsuzumi player. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 110 | Arashi Tatsuzo as a woman flower-vendor. | KATSUKAWA SHUNYEI Pupil of ShunshoÌ? and an artist of ability. At first, for a short time, he called himself ShunjoÌ?. He was born in 1767, and died on December 13, 1819. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 112 | Ichikawa Monnosuke in a female rÔle. | LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 113 | Scene from the tenth act of “Chushingura.” | | 114 | Ichikawa KomazoÌ?. | UTAGAWA TOYOHARU Pupil of Toyonobu. As a painter his reputation is justly high. He did not design many prints. He was born in 1735 and died on March 3, 1814. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 114 | Cock, hen and chickens. | [pg 44] TORII KIYONAGA Everything considered, the greatest artist of the UkiyoÉ school and the culminating figure in its forward movement. He was born in 1742 and died in 1815. His finest prints were designed between 1780 and 1790. LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM. | 116 | The Writing-lesson. | | 117 | Fair travellers resting on a bench by the roadside. | LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. | 118 | Two geishas entertaining a young man. | | 119 | Court ladies on the engawa of a palace. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 120 | Three girls going to the baths at the hot springs near Miyanoshita. | | 121 | Man and two women masquerading in komusoÌ? attire. | | 122 | Group of three women and a boy. | | 123 | Two women standing beside a seated geisha who is playing on a samisen. | | 124 | Yoshiwara beauty attended by two women (shinzo) and two girls (kamuro). | | 125 | Two young women and a servant on the balcony of an inn. | | 126 | Family group on their way to a temple for the naming ceremony of the boy who is carried on the shoulders of an attendant. | | 127 | An actor and two women examining utensils for the tea ceremony. | | 128 | Women and children promenading in summer costume. | | 129 | Scene from a drama. Two actors playing the game of “go” with mume blossoms, and a third actor as a woman in the rÔle of an umpire standing between them. | | 130 | Two young women walking under an umbrella and followed by a servant. | | 131 | Man in a black haori approaching a temple through the snow, accompanied by two women. | | 132 | Diptych. Group of women under a cherry tree. | | 133 | Diptych. Holiday group under the cherry trees at Gotenyama. One of a series of twelve diptychs that are among Kiyonaga's finest works. | | 134 | Boating party under Ryogoku bridge. Two sheets of a triptych. | | 135 | Triptych. The Peony (botan) Show. | | 136 | Triptych. Women landing from a pleasure boat. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 137 | Hashira-yÉ. Woman in winter costume. | | 138 | Triptych. A picnic party under the cherry trees. | | 139 | Group of women on the bank of the Sumida river. | | 140 | Group of women near a temple. | | 141 | Three women at a public bath-house. | KATSUKAWA SHUNCHO Pupil of ShunshoÌ?. Followed the style of Torii Kiyonaga. His works closely resemble those of the Torii master, but have less force. Worked from about 1775 to about 1795. In some of his later prints he imitated Eishi's prints in the Utamaro manner. The dates of his birth and death are not known. LENT BY SAMUAL ISHAM. | 142 | One sheet of a triptych showing a nobleman's mansion from the garden, with the people engaged in various occupations. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 143 | Women watching girls bouncing balls. | | 144 | Diptych. Group at the entrance to a temple. | | 145 | Three women in a temple compound. | [pg 46] LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 146 | Group of girls at a tea booth by the seashore. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 147 | A picnic party. Two sheets of a triptych. | | 148 | Women picking wild flowers under a cherry tree in bloom. | HOSODA EISHI One of the foremost artists of the school. He was a samurai of high rank, and a pupil of Kano Eisen. For three years before he took to UkiyoÉ he held an official post in the household of the shogun Iyeharu. Eishi was a master of all the resources of the art of colour-printing and his prints are characterized by great elegance and refinement. He worked from about 1782 to 1800, when he gave up print-designing. He died in 1829. LENT BY SAMUAL ISHAM. | 149 | Triptych. Eight women and a man playing the game of “Catch the fox.” | | 150 | Group of Yoshiwara women and attendants. | | 151 | Someyama and her kamuro playing with a pet dog. | | 152 | Yoshiwara women admiring a branch of mume tree with unopened flower buds. | | 153 | Triptych. FÊte in a nobleman's palace. Ladies composing poems. | LENT BY MRS. WILLIAM BENJAMIN WOOD. | 154 | Another copy of the foregoing triptych. Shows how beautifully the purple changes by chemical decomposition. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 155 | Oiran and attendants on parade. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 156 | A Yoshiwara beauty. Ink proof of the key block. | | 157 | Two women entering a room in the palace of Prince Genji, where a young girl is seated playing with a kitten. | YEISHOSAI CHOKI An artist of ability, though not quite of the first rank. His prints are rare. He worked at first in the style of Kiyonaga. Later he imitated Utamaro, and changed his “goÌ?,” or studio name, to Momokawa Shiko. LENT BY A COLLECTOR. | 158 | Woman and child catching fireflies. | TOSHUSAI SHARAKU This artist was by profession a performer of the stately and aristocratic No dramas in the service of Hachisuka, Daimyo of Awa. During the period from about 1790 to 1795 he designed a small number of caricature portraits of actors, which have great force and distinguished character. LENT BY YAMANAKA & COMPANY. | 159 | The actor7 Tanimura TorazoÌ? in the rÔle of Kakogawa HonzoÌ?. | | 160 | Ichikawa EbizoÌ? in the rÔle of Ko no Moronao. This print bears an inscription, probably contemporary, giving the date 1794. | | 161 | Onoe Matsusuke as one of the Loyal Ronin. | | 162 | Rando HikosaburoÌ? in the rÔle of Yuranosuke. | | 163 | Iwai HanshiroÌ? in the rÔle of Oishi, wife of Yuranosuke. | | 164 | Ichikawa Monnosuke as one of the Loyal Ronin. | | 165 | Morita Kanya as one of the Loyal Ronin. | | 166 | Segawa TominojoÌ? in the rÔle of Kaoyo Gozen, wife of Yenya. | | 167 | Sawamura SojuÌ?roÌ? in the rÔle of Yenya Hanguwan. | | 168 | Arashi TatsuzoÌ? in the rÔle of Yoichibei. | | 169 | Sakata HangoroÌ? as Ten-ichi-boÌ? Hotaku. | | 170 | Segawa TominojoÌ? and Nakamura ManjuÌ?roÌ? in female rÔles. | | 171 | Nakajima Utaemon and Nakamura KonozoÌ?. | | 172 | Ichikawa OmezoÌ? in the rÔle of Sukeroku. | | 173 | Matsumoto KoshiroÌ? in the rÔle of the otokadatÉ Banzuin Chobei. This print is commonly known as “The man with the pipe.” | | 174 | Matsumoto YonesaburoÌ? in the rÔle of Okaru, wife of Kampei. | | 175 | Ichikawa YaozoÌ? in the rÔle of Hayano Kampei. | | 176 | Kosagawa TsuneyoÌ? in the rÔle of TonasÉ, wife of Kakogawa HonzoÌ?. | | 177 | OÌ?tani Oniji in the rÔle of Sadakuro. | | 178 | Sannogawa Ichimatsu in a female rÔle. | | 178a | Nakayama TomisaburoÌ? in the rÔle of Komurasaki, and Ichikawa KomazoÌ? as her lover, Shirai Gompachi, walking with her under a huge umbrella. | LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED. KITAGAWA UTAMARO One of the most gifted and most widely known of the UkiyoÉ masters. Extraordinarily facile and brilliant. Born in 1753 and died in 1806. LENT BY SAMUAL ISHAM. | 180 | Triptych. Imaginative view of a fÊte in a Chinese palace. It is a medley of Chinese and Japanese details intended as a take-off upon the treatment of Chinese subjects by the painters of the classic schools. | | 181 | The hour of the Boar (9 to 12 P.M.). One of a set illustrating the twelve hours into which the Japanese day is divided. | | 182 | Diptych. Women in a nobleman's palace, painting kakemono. | | 183 | Yoshiwara beauties on parade. | | 183a | A sheet from the “Washing day” triptych. | | 184 | Woman helping a man attire himself in ceremonial dress. | | 185 | Woman bending over to see a baby which another woman is nursing while seated before a mirror, arranging her hair. | | 186 | Woman talking to a fan-mount vendor. | | 187 | Triptych. The persimmon-gatherers. | | 188 | Triptych. Procession of a noble lady and women attendants on their way to a temple, bearing offerings. | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 189 | Triptych. Shadows on the shoji. Illustrations of three effects of sake (rice wine). | | 190 | Woman arranging flowers. | | 191 | The kitchen. One sheet of a diptych. | | 192 | A night excursion. One of Utamaro's most famous prints. | LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 193 | Hairdresser combing a girl's hair. | | 194 | Woman with a young boy on her back, watching three puppies at play. | LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 195 | Kitao Masanobu drunk with sake at a fÊte in a daimyo's palace. Part of a triptych. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR | 196 | Woman wearing a black zukin, and a maid bearing a lantern. | | 197 | Woman standing on a pier, holding an umbrella, and conversing with a man seated under the canopy of a boat. | | 198 | Woman bearing a teacup on a lacquer stand. | | 199 | Woman raising the mosquito netting over her bed to read a letter by the light of an andon. | | 200 | Three performers in a niwaka, or burlesque theatrical procession, in the streets of the Yoshiwara. | | 201 | Woman holding in her mouth a “pokan-pokan”—a musical toy of thin glass which makes a peculiar sound when air is blown through it. | | 202 | Triptych. Boating party. | | 203 | Triptych. The awabÉ divers of IsÉ. | | 204 | Triptych. Women and children on a bridge. | UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI A brilliant artist of high repute in his day. Some of his prints, especially the earlier ones, are of distinguished quality. He was born in 1769 and died on February 24, 1825. LENT BY A HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 205 | Triptych. Street scene in the Yoshiwara. | | 206 | Large head of an actor. | LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 208 | Musume raising a large umbrella. | | 209 | Triptych. Women in a public bath-house. | LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED | 210 | Triptych. The Six Tamagawa, represented by six women washing strips of cloth in a rapid-flowing stream. | LENT BY A COLLECTOR | 211 | Woman accompanied by a maid carrying a lantern. | | 212 | Triptych. Lady emerging from a kago; her attendants grouped about her. | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI A master of extraordinary versatility and power. Perhaps the most widely known of all the Japanese artists. He was born in 1760 and died in the spring of 1849. [pg 51] | 213 | Winter landscape. | | 214 | Cranes on a snow-laden pine tree. | | 215 | Iris. | | 216 | Turtles swimming. | LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD. | 217 | Fuji san seen beneath a wave of the sea at Kanazawa. Hokusai's famous “wave.” | LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD. | 218 | View of Fuji from Ushibori; a large boat moored in the foreground. | |
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