The central figure in Ukiyoé and the eminent master under whose hand the art of colour-printing was brought to perfection in the sixties of the eighteenth century. He was a draughtsman of extreme elegance and power, and his works have a charm that is peculiarly their own. He died on July 7, 1770, when, says Shiba Kokan in his book “Kokan Kokai-ki,” he “had hardly passed his fortieth year.”
| 55 | Girls carrying Daikoku. A later
impression with different colouring. |
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| 56 | An archer and two girls near a
screen. Calendar for 1765. |
| 57 | Young woman before a torii,
carrying a hammer and nails with which to perform an
incantation. |
| 58 | Two young women on their way to
the public bath-house through a storm of snow and
rain. |
| 59 | Two girls on a terrace near a
torii, in the time of the cherry-blossoming. |
| 60 | Two girls gathering mume flowers
from a tree overhanging a wall. |
| 61 | Woman reading a letter by the
light of an andon (portable lamp with wind screen) which
another woman is trimming. |
| 62 | Geisha and a young girl standing
on the bank near the rapids of the Tamagawa. |
| 63 | Young woman seated in a window,
conversing with another young woman seated on the floor
and holding a picture-book. |
| 64 | Young man removing snow from the
geta of a young woman. |
| 65 | Woman lying upon the floor of a
room, reading a book, and another woman standing beside
her, holding a pipe. |
| 66 | Young woman seated on a veranda
after her bath, having her back massaged by her
maid. |
| 67 | Young man talking to a girl
through the bars of a window. |
| 68 | A burlesque apparition of Fugen.
Instead of the Buddhist divinity, a young woman seated on
an elephant appears on a cloud before a priest kneeling
in prayer. |
| 69 | Lovers walking in the snow under
an umbrella. One of Harunobu's most distinguished
prints. |