. Chats on Japanese prints. ongthese prints are a few splendid pillar-prints; one ofthese, the two singers with the black box, illustratedin Plate 46, seems to me almostthe finest pillar-print post-dating1795 that I have ever seen. Ofthis form Choki was a consummatemaster. But M. Koechlin regardsthese Shiko prints as mere imita-tions of Utamaros period of de-cadence, and rejoices in the factthat they are so rare. Mr. ArthurMorrison, on the other hand, whopoints out correctly that Shiko isChokis late, not his early name(a matter on which most writershave inexplicably gone astray)feels that the
. Chats on Japanese prints. ongthese prints are a few splendid pillar-prints; one ofthese, the two singers with the black box, illustratedin Plate 46, seems to me almostthe finest pillar-print post-dating1795 that I have ever seen. Ofthis form Choki was a consummatemaster. But M. Koechlin regardsthese Shiko prints as mere imita-tions of Utamaros period of de-cadence, and rejoices in the factthat they are so rare. Mr. ArthurMorrison, on the other hand, whopoints out correctly that Shiko isChokis late, not his early name(a matter on which most writershave inexplicably gone astray)feels that the Shiko sheets are,in the best instances, of more elegance and distinctionthan anything produced under the Choki should hardly like to agree with either view, but amcontent to put the Shiko pillar-prints and the Chokisilver-prints side by side, and regard them as thesupreme examples of the double talent of thispuzzling genius. All of Chokis work is of great rarity; thatsigned Shiko is possibly even rarer than that. SHIKO. 328 CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS signed Choki. Rarest and most highly treasuredof all are his silver-prints; the ordinary collectorwill probably never have an opportunity to obtainone. Nagahide II and Ichirakusai Nagamatsu(Chosho) may be mentioned as followers of fact that we do not know of more disciplesof so brilliant a designer is another one of theinexplicable things that surround him. TOYOKUNI. The Pupil of Toyokuni. I walk the crowded Yedo streets,And everywhere one question greetsMy passing, as the strollers say—How goes the Masters work to-day?We saw him sketching hard last nightAt Ryogoku, where the brightTrails of the rockets lit the should have seen the ladies there !All the most famous of the townIn gorgeous robes walked up and downThe long bridge-span, well-knowing heWas there to draw them sure hell give us something fine—Dark splendid figures, lights ashine,A great procession of our bestAnd costliest Oira
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