LENT BY A COLLECTOR.

72The Sleeping Elder Sister. Still later impression. Colouring changed again, and the number of blocks increased from ten to thirteen.

LENT BY HAMILTON EASTER FIELD.

73The Hole in the Wall.
74Mother holding her infant son.
75At the entrance gate.
76Mother taking her infant son from another woman and handing her a letter.
77Lovers in a palace.

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78Musume walking up a flight of steps leading to a temple.
79Lovers playing battledore and shuttlecock; the young man climbing a ladder to disengage the shuttlecock caught upon the branch of a mume tree.
80Hashira-yé. Woman in night attire standing by her bedside reading a letter.

SHIBA KOKAN

An artist who is best known as a clever imitator of his master, Harunobu, whose signature he forged upon a number of prints. He also used the “go̅,” or studio name, Harushige in signing prints in the Harunobu manner. In later years he painted pictures in semi-European style, and made copper-plate engravings which were coloured by hand. He was born in 1747 and died in 1818.

LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM.

81The courtyard of a house in the Yoshiwara. A woman reading a letter and a girl attendant standing beside her holding a tray. Signed Harunobu.