FUJINOBU worked in the manner of Harunobu in the early seventies. His output was small, and little of his work survives. It may be that he was the same individual as Yamamoto Fujinobu, who has already been mentioned as Shigenaga's pupil. KOMATSUKEN is a name signed to certain calendar-prints for the year 1765. The style is greatly like Harunobu's. His name may also be read _Shoshoken_. Mr. Gookin thinks him to be identical with Fusanobu, who has been previously mentioned. HARUTSUGU and SUSUKI HARUJI, said by some to be the same person, produced a few pleasing prints about 1770. SHUNSHO. _Portrait of an Actor in Tragic Rôle._ His soul is a sword; His sword with the spirit's breath Is bathed of its terrible lord, In whose eyes is death. And the massive control, And the lighted implacable eye Leash a fierce and exalted soul Of dark destiny. . . . . . . With the strength of the hills-- Kiso's iron mountains of snow-- He waits: time brings and fulfills The hour for the blow. He waits; and the white Full robes round his shoulders sway, With woof of pale orange alight, Pale green, pale grey. Like a falcon, flown To bleak mid-regions of sky, He poises. One image alone Holds his sinister eye-- A vision, a prey Towards which he shall soon be hurled-- And his fury shall darken the day, And his joy, the world. . . . . . . A music enfolds him Like the thunders that are poured Across heaven; it holds him With the song of the sword. It enthrals, it inspires, And its zenith shall be Lightning of unleashed desires Crashing along the sea. [Illustration: SHUNSHO: AN ACTOR OF THE ISHIKAWA SCHOOL IN TRAGIC RÔLE. Size 12 × 6. Signed _Shunsho ga_. _Plate 19._] Those actor-types which Harunobu and his school so scornfully cast aside became the chosen speciality of the greatest of his rivals and contemporaries, Katsukawa Shunsho. As one examines sheet after sheet of Shunsho's theatrical prints, Harunobu's contemptuous words concerning "this vulgar herd," the actors, lose their significance; for here pass in gorgeous procession a series of lofty, intense, and unforgettable figures charged with the quintessence of heroic force. [Illustration: KATSUKAWA SHUNSHO.]