Chotensai Yeiju is a slightly stiff and not very interesting disciple whose work is rare.
Yeicho also is notable chiefly for his rarity.
Yeiru followed his master with little originality.
Yeiki and Sōraku are later unimportant pupils who followed Utamaro also.
Utamaro.
Portrait of a Woman.
In robes like clouds of sunset rolled
About the dying sun,
In splendid vesture of purple and gold
That a thousand toiling days have spun
For thee, O imperial one!—
With the cunning pomp of the later years,
With their pride and glory and stress,
Thou risest; and thy calm forehead bears
These like a crown; but thy frail mouth wears
All of their weariness.
Thou art one of the great who mayest stand
Where Cleopatra stood:
Aspasia, Rhodope, at each hand;
And even the proud tempestuous mood
Of Sappho shall rule thy blood.
Thy throat, in its slender whiteness bare,
Seems powerless to sustain
The gorgeous tower of thy gold-decked hair—
Like a lily's stem which the autumn air
Maketh to shrink and wane.