. Chats on Japanese prints. ofhis prints in existence. Hanekawa-Wagen is represented by two printsin the Buckingham Collection. Nothing is known ofhim. KiYOTOMO, whose work appears to fall entirelywithin the period of hand-coloured prints, producedexcellent actor designs, in some of which the line-work reminds one slightly of Kwaigetsudo. Theinfluence of Kiyomasu appears in some of his urushi-ye. His prints are distinguished by their vigour andare found but seldom. Sanseido Tanaka Masunobu produced hand-coloured and two-colour prints in the Torii print by him dated 1746 is known, but
. Chats on Japanese prints. ofhis prints in existence. Hanekawa-Wagen is represented by two printsin the Buckingham Collection. Nothing is known ofhim. KiYOTOMO, whose work appears to fall entirelywithin the period of hand-coloured prints, producedexcellent actor designs, in some of which the line-work reminds one slightly of Kwaigetsudo. Theinfluence of Kiyomasu appears in some of his urushi-ye. His prints are distinguished by their vigour andare found but seldom. Sanseido Tanaka Masunobu produced hand-coloured and two-colour prints in the Torii print by him dated 1746 is known, but most of hiswork precedes 1740. He is not to be confused withthe Masunobu who was Harunobus pupil. KlYOSOMO is said to have been a distinguishedpupil of Kiyonobu I, influenced also by OkumuraMasanobu. Other men of this period, closely connected withthe Torii School, were: Kiyoake, Kondo SukegoroKiyoharu, Katsukawa Terushige, Nishikawa Teru-nobu, Nishikawa Omume, Fujikawa Yoshinobu,Tamwra Yoshinobu, Tamura Sadanobu, Kichikawa. o £-• < s CO •- a D X 8 s 5; 93 FIRST PERIOD: THE PRIMITIVES 95 Katsumasa, Kiyomizu Mazunobu, Shimizu Mitsu-nobu, Kondo Kiyonobu, Kondo Katsunobu, Kiyoro,Tadaharu, and Nakaji Sadatoshi. A Figure. Okumura Masanobu. Garbed in flowing folds of light,Azure, emerald, rose, and white,Watchest thou across the night. Crowned with splendour is thine head;All the princes great and deadRound thy limbs their state have shed— Calm, immutable to head and poised hand,Oer the years that flow like sand. Okumura Masanobu may be termed the centralfigure of this period: not onlydoes he tower among the greatestmen of the time, but around himrevolve the changes in technique,full of far-reaching consequences,which came into being with hisinvention of two-colour printing. Furthermore, he takes on anadditional historical importance asthe founder of the OkumuraSchool, which continued parallelwith the Torii School, and whoseproductions are characterized bya f
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