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Chats on Japanese prints (1915)

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1946 · London : Benn · leaf 222

An illustration from Chats on Japanese prints, 1915, leaf 222 — PANESE PRINTS Kiyonaga. No other Ukioye artist ever so domi- nated his period. All earlier print-designers were gradual])'- driven into retirement by his colossal success, and the majority of his contemporaries adopted his style. In him all previously developed resources met ; after him began that… … amount of further print-designing. KIYONAGA. His death occurred in 181 5. Though Kiyonaga was a pupil of Kiyomitsu, little of that artist's influence is visible in his work. It is true that his earliest sheets, actors in hoso-ye form, are precisely like Kiyomitsu's ; but he appears to have…

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