. Chats on Japanese prints. plicated in allthe markets of the world combined. Pupils of Kiyonaga. TORII KlYOMASA was the son of Kiyonaga. Hiswork, produced between 1810 and 1825, is withoutspecial distinction. Among the minor pupils may be named Kiyotsugi,Kiyohisa, Kiyokatsu, Kiyotei, Kiyotoki, Kiyoyuki,Kiyohide H, Kiyotsune II. Every artist of the day was influenced byKiyonaga; among those difficult to classify other-wise may be named the following men:— Sancho, who worked in the neighbourhood of1780, produced prints somewhat in the manner ofShuncho. Delicacy rather than strength dis-tinguish
. Chats on Japanese prints. plicated in allthe markets of the world combined. Pupils of Kiyonaga. TORII KlYOMASA was the son of Kiyonaga. Hiswork, produced between 1810 and 1825, is withoutspecial distinction. Among the minor pupils may be named Kiyotsugi,Kiyohisa, Kiyokatsu, Kiyotei, Kiyotoki, Kiyoyuki,Kiyohide H, Kiyotsune II. Every artist of the day was influenced byKiyonaga; among those difficult to classify other-wise may be named the following men:— Sancho, who worked in the neighbourhood of1780, produced prints somewhat in the manner ofShuncho. Delicacy rather than strength dis-tinguished him in the few examples of his work Ihave seen. Harumitsu is an artist whose work is knownto me only by one pillar-print in my , who once owned the print, noted onthe margin of it: A rare man. Name may bealso read Shunko, but not the same as the pupilof Shunsho. A follower of Kiyonaga. And thisis all the information I have been able to obtainabout him. It is possible that he is the same asShunko 2£5 THIRD PERIOD: KITONAGA 237 Shuncho. Your lovely ladies shall not fadeThough Yedos moated walls be laidLevel with dust, and night-owls broodOver the citys be the coming of that day!Yet that it comes not, who shall say?Who knows how long the halls shall standOf your once-golden wonderland ?Perhaps shall Nikko crumble down,Its carvings worn, its glow turned brownThrough many winters. On that hillWhere great leyasus brazen willIn brazen tomb now takes its rest,Perhaps the eagles young shall gardens cannot Kamakura, where the vastForm of the Buddha fronts the sea,A waste of waves may someday be. . Ah, stale and flat the warning bellWhose melancholy accents tellImpermanence to hearts that guessTimes undiscovered fairer Yedo shall arise;A richer Nikko praise the skies;leyasus mightier than of oldShall cast the world in wiser mould;Fresh gardens shall be spread; new faithShall spring when Buddha is a wraith—And m
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