Japanese Colour-Prints and Their Designers

by Frederick W. Gookin

LENT BY A COLLECTOR.

85	Two geishas.

ISODA KORYUSAI

The most important pupil of Harunobu, whose style he followed closely in his early works. Later he developed a manner of his own. As a designer of pillar prints and of prints of birds, he was especially successful. He was a samurai and associated with samurai of the superior class. The director of the mint was one of his most intimate friends and patrons. About 1781 he gave up print-designing, devoted himself to painting, and was given the honorary title of Hokyo. The dates of his birth and death are not known.

LENT BY SAMUEL ISHAM.

86	Hashira-yé. Musume leaping from the balcony of Kiyomidzu temple with an umbrella as a parachute.
87	Woman standing on the engawa of a house, admiring snow-laden bamboo branches; back of her, a girl and a young boy looking through a window.
88	A Yoshiwara beauty arranging flowers; two girl attendants looking on.

LENT BY A COLLECTOR.

89	Hashira-yé. Musume carrying her infant brother.
90	Hashira-yé. Young woman poling a boat in a lily-pond.

LENT BY THE ESTATE OF FRANCIS LATHROP, DECEASED.

91	A Yoshiwara beauty on parade, attended by a girl and a boy.
92	Hashira-yé. The bijin JuroÌ jin. A young woman is represented in place of the long-life being whose attributes are a crane and a tortoise.