Chats on Japanese Prints

Name: Chats on Japanese Prints
Author: Ficke, Arthur Davison

Ficke, Arthur Davison

Color prints, Japanese

31. SHUNCHO: GROUP AT A TEMPLE GATE (_Mansfield Collection_)         235

32. SHUNCHO: TWO LADIES UNDER UMBRELLA                               239

    SHUNCHO: THE COURTESAN HANA-ŌJI; THE SUMIDA RIVER SEEN
      THROUGH THE WINDOW                                             239

33. SHUNCHO: TWO LADIES IN A BOAT ON THE SUMIDA RIVER                243

    YEISHO: TWO COURTESANS AFTER THE BATH                            243

34. KITAO MASANOBU: THE CUCKOO (_Spaulding Collection_)              251

35. YEISHI: THREE LADIES BY THE SEASHORE                             267

36. YEISHI: LADY WITH TOBACCO-PIPE                                   271

37. YEISHI: INTERIOR OPENING ON TO THE SEASHORE
      (_Metzgar Collection_)                                         275

38. UTAMARO: OKITA OF NANIWAYA, A TEA-HOUSE WAITRESS
      (_Chandler Collection_)                                        283

39. UTAMARO: TWO COURTESANS                                          287

40. UTAMARO: WOMAN SEATED ON A VERANDA                               291

41. UTAMARO: A YOUTHFUL PRINCE AND LADIES                            295

42. SHARAKU: THE ACTOR ARASHI RYUZŌ IN THE RÔLE OF ONE
      OF THE FORTY-SEVEN RONIN (_Spaulding Collection_)              301

43. SHARAKU: THE ACTOR ISHIKAWA DANJURO IN THE RÔLE OF MORONAO       309

44. SHARAKU: THE ACTOR KOSAGAWA TSUNEYO AS A WOMAN IN
      THE DRAMA OF THE FORTY-SEVEN RONIN (_Ainsworth Collection_)    313

45. CHOKI: COURTESAN AND ATTENDANT                                   321

    SHUNMAN: TWO LADIES UNDER A MAPLE-TREE                           321

46. CHOKI: A COURTESAN AND HER LOVER                                 325

    CHOKI: A GEISHA AND HER SERVANT CARRYING LUTE-BOX                325

47. TOYOKUNI: LADIES AND CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN THE WIND
      (_Metzgar Collection_)                                         333

48. TOYOHIRO: A DAIMYO'S KITE-PARTY                                  341

49. HOKUSAI: FUJI, SEEN ACROSS THE TAMA RIVER, PROVINCE OF MUSASHI   361

50. HOKUSAI: FUJI, SEEN FROM THE PASS OF MISHIMA, PROVINCE OF KAHI   367

51. HOKUSAI: THE MONKEY BRIDGE; TWILIGHT AND RISING MOON             371

52. HIROSHIGE: HOMING GEESE AT KATADA; TWILIGHT                      377

53. HIROSHIGE: THE SEVEN RI FERRY, KUWANA, AT THE MOUTH
      OF THE KISO RIVER; SUNSET                                      383

54. HIROSHIGE: THE VILLAGE OF THE FUJI KAWA; EVENING SNOW            387

55. HIROSHIGE: THE OMMAYA EMBANKMENT, ON THE SUMIDA RIVER
      AT ASAKUSA; EVENING                                            391

56. HIROSHIGE: BIRD AND FLOWERS                                      395

GLOSSARY

    BENI.--A delicate pink or red pigment of vegetable origin.

    BENI-YE.--A print in which _beni_ is the chief colour used. The term
    is generally employed to describe all those two-colour prints which
    immediately preceded the invention of polychrome printing.

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