. Chats on Japanese prints. le sheets, and is very rare. Additional pupils or contemporaries were: Moro-masa, Moronaga, Morikuni, Masanojo, Moroshige,Morobei, Masataka, Osawa, Morotsugi, Moromori,Hishikawa Masanobu, Tomofusa, Shimbei, Toshiyuki,Furuyama, Morotane, Ryujo, Hasegawa Toun, Ishi-kawa Riusen, Ishikawa Riushu, Wowo, KawashimaShigenobu,Kichi,YoshimuraKatsumasa,andTsukiokaTange. Many of these are obscure figures, of whosework little is known. Most ofthem were chiefly book-illustrators. name of Nishikawa Suken-obu brings to mind that longprocession of charming girl figuresw
. Chats on Japanese prints. le sheets, and is very rare. Additional pupils or contemporaries were: Moro-masa, Moronaga, Morikuni, Masanojo, Moroshige,Morobei, Masataka, Osawa, Morotsugi, Moromori,Hishikawa Masanobu, Tomofusa, Shimbei, Toshiyuki,Furuyama, Morotane, Ryujo, Hasegawa Toun, Ishi-kawa Riusen, Ishikawa Riushu, Wowo, KawashimaShigenobu,Kichi,YoshimuraKatsumasa,andTsukiokaTange. Many of these are obscure figures, of whosework little is known. Most ofthem were chiefly book-illustrators. name of Nishikawa Suken-obu brings to mind that longprocession of charming girl figureswhich year by year came from hishand—figures whose sweet mono-tonous faces and delicately poisedbodies move with a pure gracethat is perpetually the powerful decorativesense of Moronobu, whose lead hein general followed, and neverattemptingthe massive blacks ofthe masters dashing brush-stroke, Sukenobu yetachieved effects that are more gracious and appeal-ing than those of his great predecessor. .Nothing. NISHIKAWASUKENOBU. 76 CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS could surpass the delicate harmony of line in sucha design as the one reproduced in Plate 2; thewillowyness of the young body, the naive innocenceof the head, the movement and rhythm of theflowing garments, are admirably depicted. This wasSukenobus characteristic note; he lingers in onesmemory by virtue of it and none other; he was theleast versatile of artists. He lived between the years 1671 and 1751. Duringthe period of his activity his popularity must havebeen enormous. The single-sheet prints which heproduced were not many, and only a small propor-tion of these have come down to us. His mainwork was in the field of illustrated books andalbums. More than forty of these are known contain chiefly scenes from the lives of womenand figures of young girls. Most of them date from1713 to 1750. They constitute Sukenobus claim torank as Moronobus most important successor in thefield of book-illustration.
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