[A]Utamaro—While Mother Sleeps “ 40 Hokusai—Two Ladies “ 48 Hok’kei—A River Scene “ 52 Hiroshige—Wistaria Viewing at Kameido “ 58 Yeishi—Two Ladies “ 70 Shunko—An actor in the Miyako Dance “ 72 Kitugawa Yeizan—The Snowstorm “ 74 Hokusai—One of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji “ 76 Hokusai—Surimono: A Crow Stealing a Sword _First Fly-leaf_ Yanagawa Shigenobu—The Ride of the Warrior Miura Kenisuke _Last Fly-leaf_ [Footnote A: From the Happer Collection.] IMPRESSIONS OF UKIYO-YE The Rise of Ukiyo-ye. The Floating World. The Art of Ukiyo-ye is a “spiritual rendering of the realism and naturalness of the daily life, intercourse with nature, and imaginings, of a lively impressionable race, in the full tide of a passionate craving for art.” This characterization of Jarves sums up forcibly the motive of the masters of Ukiyo-ye, the Popular School of Japanese Art, so poetically interpreted “The Floating World.” To the Passionate Pilgrim, and devotee of nature and art, who has visited the enchanted Orient, it is unnecessary to prepare the way for the proper understanding of Ukiyo-ye. This joyous idealist trusts less to dogma than to impressions. “I know nothing of Art, but I know what I like,” is the language of sincerity, sincerity which does not take a stand upon creed or tradition, nor upon cut and dried principles and conventions. It is truly said that “they alone can pretend to fathom the depth of feeling and beauty in an alien art, who resolutely determine to scrutinize it from the point of view of an inhabitant of the place of its birth.” To the born cosmopolite, who assimilates alien ideas by instinct, or the gauging power of his sub-conscious intelligence, the feat is easy, but to the less intuitively gifted, it is necessary to serve a novitiate, in order to appreciate “a wholly recalcitrant element like Japanese Art, which at once demands attention, and defies judgment upon accepted theories.” These sketches are not an individual expression, but an endeavour to give in condensed form the opinions of those qualified by study and research to speak with authority upon the form of Japanese Art, which in its most concrete development the Ukiyo-ye print is now claiming the attention of the art world.