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Chats on Japanese prints (1915)

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1946 · London : Benn · leaf 304

An illustration from Chats on Japanese prints, 1915, leaf 304 — 300 CHATS ON JAPANESE PRINTS Few people approach Sharaku's work for the first time without regarding him as a repulsive charlatan, the creator of perversely and senselessly ugly por- traits whose cross-eyes, impossible mouths, and snaky gestures have not the slightest claim to be called art. At… … TOSHIUSAI has folded him in a mystery deeper SHARAKU. than the mere accidental obscura- tions of time. Of his birth and death we know absolutely nothing, nor of the name of his teacher, if he had one. The resemblance between his work and that of Shunyei cannot be fully explained until we know more…

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