Japanese Colour-Prints and Their Designers — John Shaqi
Japanese Colour-Prints and Their DesignersGookin, Frederick W.
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Japanese Colour-Prints and Their Designers
Gookin, Frederick W.
Artists -- Japan; Color prints, Japanese; Color prints, Japanese -- Exhibitions
_ 33 Tall hand-coloured print._ The actor Sannogawa Ichimatsu as a woman
holding a folded letter.
LENT BY A COLLECTOR
_ 34 Urushi-yé._ Segawa Kikunojo as a woman holding a warrior’s helmet.
_ 35 Beni-yé._ Procession of the Corean ambassadors.
ISHIKAWA TOYONOBU
One of the most important of the Ukiyoé masters. Born in 1711, died in
1785. Pupil of Shigenaga, and probably of Masanobu whose style he closely
assimilated.
LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED
_ 36 Large beni-yé._ The actors Segawa Kikunojo and Sannogawa Ichimatsu.
LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM.
_ 37 Wide print from three colour-blocks._ Women and children at the
seashore.
LENT BY A COLLECTOR.
_ 38 Tall hand-coloured print._ Segawa KikunojoÌ as a woman reading a
letter.
_ 39 Two sheets from a beni-yé triptych._ Musume carrying umbrellas.
LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD.
_ 40 Beni-yé._ Mother and son.
_ 41 Print from three colour-blocks._ Boys rolling a large snowball.
_ 42 Print from three colour-blocks._ Man struggling with a refractory
umbrella; a woman looking on.
TORII KIYOHIRO
[KIYONAGA. Picnic Party.]
KIYONAGA. Picnic Party.
Pupil of Kiyomasu. His known works are exclusively beni-yé, executed from
about 1745 to about 1755.
LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD.
_ 43 Beni-yé._ Nakamura HatsugoroÌ as Sakura no Suké.
TORII SHIRO
Known as Kiyonobu the second, all of his prints being signed Torii
Kiyonobu. He was the eldest son of Kiyomasu. Worked from about 1740 to
about 1755, when it is probable that his death occurred. Some of the most
charming of the beni-yé prints are from his hand.
LENT BY HOWARD MANSFIELD.
_ 44 Beni-yé._ Yamamoto IwanojoÌ as a woman dancing by a fox-trap in a
rice field under a blossoming cherry tree.
TORII KIYOMITSU
Second son of Kiyomasu, whom he succeeded as the head of the Torii line.
An artist of distinction. Was the first to add a third colour-block to the
original two. He was born in 1735 and died in 1785. After 1765 he designed
only a few prints, and appears to have designed none later than about
1768.
LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED
_ 45 Wide print from three colour-blocks._ The NoÌ performance of
“Musume DoÌjoÌji.”
_ 46 Wide print from three colour-blocks._ Daimyo procession game by
women and children.
_ 47 Print from three colour-blocks._ Iwai HanshiroÌ as a woman reading
a letter while seated upon a carabao.
_ 48 Beni-yé._ Scene from a drama. Ichimura KamezoÌ (standing) as Wakemi
GoroÌ and Nakamura TomijuÌroÌ as Akoya.
SUZUKI HARUNOBU
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