. Chats on Japanese prints. rint by him representing famoustheatrical characters depicted by geisha, the colourspartly printed and partly applied by hand. Harutoshi is known to me only by one pillar-print, in the manner of Shigenagas actors. It isdoubtful where he should be classified. Akiyama Sadaharu, Hirose Shigenobu, andRyukwado Ichiichido Shigenobu were obscurepupils of Shigenaga. Yamamoto Yoshinobu is said by Fenollosa tohave been a pupil of Shigenaga, and possibly thesame as Komai Yoshinobu, who is treated laterunder Harunobu. Dr. Kurth thinks him a memberof a Yamamoto School, which com
. Chats on Japanese prints. rint by him representing famoustheatrical characters depicted by geisha, the colourspartly printed and partly applied by hand. Harutoshi is known to me only by one pillar-print, in the manner of Shigenagas actors. It isdoubtful where he should be classified. Akiyama Sadaharu, Hirose Shigenobu, andRyukwado Ichiichido Shigenobu were obscurepupils of Shigenaga. Yamamoto Yoshinobu is said by Fenollosa tohave been a pupil of Shigenaga, and possibly thesame as Komai Yoshinobu, who is treated laterunder Harunobu. Dr. Kurth thinks him a memberof a Yamamoto School, which comprised alsoYamamoto Denroku, Yamamoto Shigenobu,Yamamoto Shigefusa, Yamamoto Fujinobu,Yamamoto Shigeharu, Tomikawa Ginsetsualso known as FuSANOBU, Yamamoto MaruyaKyuyeimon, Yamamoto Kuzayeimon, and Yama-moto Rihei. toyonoeu. A Pillar Print. O lady of the long robes, the slow folds flowing-Lady of the white breast, the dark and lofty head—Dwells there any wonder, the way that thou art going— Or goest thou toward the dead. TOYONOBH : TWO KOMUSO, REPRESENTED BY THE ACTORS SANOKAWAICHIMATSU AND ONOYE KIKUGORO. Printed in blacic and ttiree colours. Size is x Tanjodo, Ishikaiva Shulia Toyonobu ga. Ciiandler Collection. Plate 7. 109 FIRST PERIOD: THE PRIMITIVES 111 So calm thy solemn steps, so slow the long lines sweepingor garments pale and ghostly, of limbs as grave as sleep—I know not if thou, spectre, hast love or death in keeping. Or goest toward which deep. Thou layest thy robes aside with gesture large and it for love or sleep—^is it for life or death?I would my feet might follow the path that thou art going, And thy breath be my breath. Ishikawa Toyonobu, who not many years ago wasregarded as an artist of secondary importance, has oflate, thanks to fresh discoveries,come to be esteemed by com-petent observers as one of thegiants of the line—one of thosemasters among the Primitiveswhose dignity of compositionmakes all but a handful of hissuccessor
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