. Chats on Japanese prints. , KUNITSUGI I,KUNITSUGI II, KUNITADA, KUNINOBU II, KUNIAKI,KnrOKUNI, KUNIMARU I, KUNIMARU II, KUNI-CHIKA, CHIKASHIGE, YOSHITAKI, YOSHITSURU,YOSHIUME, YOSHITSUNA, YOSHISATO, YOSHIFUJI,YOSHIKAGE, YOSHIKUNI, YOSHICHIKA, YOSHIKAZU,YOSHIHARU, SHUNBENI, YoSHITOMI, YoSHIFUSA,SUGAKUDO, SeNCHO, TOMINOBU. Chikamaro is said to be identical with KiosAl,whose work sometimes resembles Hokusais. Bornin 1831, he died very late in the century. He was 354 CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS a vigorous designer—perhaps the best of all thelater men. His crow pictures are famous. KiKUGAWA Yeizan,
. Chats on Japanese prints. , KUNITSUGI I,KUNITSUGI II, KUNITADA, KUNINOBU II, KUNIAKI,KnrOKUNI, KUNIMARU I, KUNIMARU II, KUNI-CHIKA, CHIKASHIGE, YOSHITAKI, YOSHITSURU,YOSHIUME, YOSHITSUNA, YOSHISATO, YOSHIFUJI,YOSHIKAGE, YOSHIKUNI, YOSHICHIKA, YOSHIKAZU,YOSHIHARU, SHUNBENI, YoSHITOMI, YoSHIFUSA,SUGAKUDO, SeNCHO, TOMINOBU. Chikamaro is said to be identical with KiosAl,whose work sometimes resembles Hokusais. Bornin 1831, he died very late in the century. He was 354 CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS a vigorous designer—perhaps the best of all thelater men. His crow pictures are famous. KiKUGAWA Yeizan, a prolific and undistinguisheddesigner of the first quarter of the century, was a laterival and imitator of Utamaro. He eventually sankeven to imitating Kunisada. The flowing draperiesof some of his prints of womenare at first sight attractive to eyesnot accustomed to the finest worksin this field; but the completebanality of Yeizans powers be-comes manifest on more prolongedacquaintance, and any trace ofcharm Followers of the Torii may be mentioned thoseartists in whom the once-greatTorii School came to its ingloriousend. KiYOMlNE, the fifth head of theschool, sometimes signed himselfKiyomitsu; his work is easilydistinguishable from that of thefirst Kiyomitsu. He studied under Kiyonaga, andlater adopted a style somewhat like that ofToyokuni. His work is graceful, but not dis-tinguished. Prints by him are rather rare. Hedied in 1868. KlYOFUSA, who died as late as 1893, was thesixth Torii. He also called himself Kiyomitsu III. KIKUGAWA YEIZAN. FIFTH PERIOD: THE DOWNFALL 355 and Kiyosada 11. Other late members of this schoolwere: KlYOMOTO II, KlYOYASU, KlYOTADA II, KiYOTADA III, Kiyosada I. The Osaka School. In the first half of the nineteenth century theregrew into importance in the city of Osaka a group ofdesigners who constituted an exception to the state-ment made earlier in this book—that the art ofcolour-printing was exclusively a Yedo art. Hoku
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