Pupil, and perhaps the son, of Moronobu. He devoted himself chiefly to painting, but designed a few prints, most of which are ukiyé, or perspective pictures, in the style of Okumura Masanobu. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED _ 21 Large hand-coloured ukiyé, or perspective print._ A game of ken in a room in a nobleman’s house. OKUMURA MASANOBU One of the most eminent of the Ukiyoé artists. His drawings were greatly admired for their rare combination of force and refinement, and he exercised wide influence over his contemporaries and successors to the end of the eighteenth century. He was the first artist to use blocks from which prints were coloured in flat tints. These were printed in the red known as beni, green, and black, and were known as beni-yé. He was also the first artist to make the tall, narrow pillar prints (ha-shira-yé), and was the inventor of the perspective prints which he called _ukiyé._ His true name was Okumura Genpachi, and he was commonly known as honya (bookseller) Genpachi, from the fact that he was the proprietor of a wholesale and retail book and print shop at the sign of the “red gourd” in Tori-shio choÌ, Yedo. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED _ 22 Large sumi-yé._ Woman seated by a writing-table, reading a book. _ 23 Urushi-yé._ Bando Hikosaburo as a warrior resisting the opening of a castle door. _ 24 Tall beni-yé._ A geisha playing upon a samisen. _ 25 Large sumi-yé._ A woman with a pet cat watching a man dip water from a chozubachi. LENT BY A COLLECTOR _ 26 Large beni-yé._ Segawa KikunojoÌ as an oiran lighting her pipe at a hibachi in the hands of her kamuro, and Sannogawa Ichimatsu as a man holding an umbrella over her. _ 27 Undivided beni-yé triptych._ Street scene. A boy kneeling to put on a woman’s geta; a man playing upon a shakuhachi; and another man carrying an umbrella. _ 28 Undivided triptych._ Three women carrying umbrellas. OKUMURA TOSHINOBU Toshinobu, the son of Masanobu, was an artist of decided talent who died young. His known works, which resemble those of his father, are all urushi-yé, and were designed about 1730-1736. LENT BY A COLLECTOR 29 Ichimura Uzaemon as a dancing-girl. 30 Woman dressing. 31 Sanjo KentaroÌ in a female rôle. TSUNEKAWA SHIGENOBU An early Ukiyoé artist of whom little is known. His prints are extremely rare. LENT BY A COLLECTOR _ 32 Urushi-yé._ Arashi Wakano in the rôle of Shida no KotaroÌ. NISHIMURA SHIGENAGA Son of Shigenobu. Born in 1697 and died in 1756. An artist of ability who exercised marked influence upon the development of the school. His prints are very uneven in quality. LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED