TH E CONNOISSEUR SERIES. nn r ' Em m GumsouWm rx. PICTURE P TER . B OS S c . T. H um y J . the Illustrated Placard. most Artistic Examples of all EnwnunF. Suntan, eight Black -and -White H E ART F TH E R M T O H OUSE. By OSA OND Wi th numerous Collo y e and other t p . and elsewhere. ENGLISH H I TORICAL P RTRAIT B S O S. y W H . B. Wm ulw. ith nearly a hundred Illustrations taken the originals. Demy 8vc . LO O : EOR E ELL AND SO ND N G G B NS. AP A N EsE ILLUSTRATIO N A HISTORY OF THE ARTS OF WOOD- CUT TING AND COLOUR TlNG lN JAPAN ° S M . RANGE . BY EDWARD F ST , J LO N DO N : GEO RGE BELL AN D S O NS YORK S TREE CO E RDE M X VII T, V NT GA N, DCCC C ICAT BY P MI ION DED ED , ER SS , H . H APA S M I . T N I N T E E J E E S ER , TAKAAKI KATO , P I NT OF TH E APAN OC I TY T E C . RES DE J S E , ON N C TE TS . PAGE CH APTE R I . E ARLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS A T II CH P ER . TH E BEGIN N IN G O F COLO UR PRINTING H A TE 1 1 C P R 1 . H A U NOBU SHU N HO AN TH I PUPIL R , S , D E R S C H APT ER IV . TAMA O TOYOKUN I AN Y EISH I U R , , D C H APTER V . H OKUSAI AND H IS PUPILS C H APTER V I . Y EISEN SHU N N AN TH I CONT M PO SE , D E R E C H APT ER V II . T H E OSAKA SCHOOL AND LATER ARTISTS C H APTE R V III. LANDSCAPE CONTE NTS . CH APTER IX . TECHNI! UE CH APTER x . SOME SUBJ ECTS OF ILLUSTRATIO N ’ LIST OF ARTISTs NAMES CH INESE CH ARACTERS INDEx LIS T OF I LLU STRATIONS . COLOURED PLATES. DESIGN BY SUBJ ECT PAGE RII KI NA A w i n r tin a . O YO G T o La es o e I T d , W i g Poem SUZU I H AR N B wo m n f s i II . K U O U T Wo e o the Yo h wara KA W III . TSUGA A SHUN SH O Actor inthe Principal Female Part of the Play Uda V TA AR ne of T n Fa I . U M O O the e mous WomenAuthors V T A AWA O Y O . U G T ’ KUNI A Princesss Garden- Party at ” a M omiji - Garden at KyOtO inAutumn VI . UTAGAWA KUN I Y A G is a OSHI e h . H OKUSAI The M akura Bridge over the Sumida River T nt V H IRO IGE I . he Gate of h S i III . SH t e h o em l Shi-en- s a K t T p e, , yo o inWinter h PROCESS BLOCKS ANONYMOUS Designfor a Kimono (Seven nth nt r tee Ce uy) . 3 R se fr m a B tanica B k 1 o , o o l oo 9 Childrenat Play (Eighteenth n r Ce tuy) . il r t S houette Port ai . Actors InCharacter Crane A Street Merchant S OF S RA O S LI T ILLU T TI N . D ESIGN Iw SUBJ ECT GAKUTEI Illustrationto a Novel Mount Fuj i Surimono :: Portrait of a Woman BuddhistAngel Inthe Robe (1 1 :3v ) I I . M H ROSH GE I other and Child . H I ROSH IGE IL . H ISH IKAWA MORONOBU Daikoku and Ebisu (c. “ H OKKEI Illustrationfromthe Ocen A View of Mount Fuj l (Double Plate) Design for la cqueTJ aflJer H OKUEA Illustrationto The H onest Clerk H OKUSAI ’ okusai s Pub Illustration to a Novel by Fish One of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ' H OKUSAI (KARO) Scene from the Drama oi ” The Fotty-sevenRonin H OKUSUI A Theatrical Scene H OSAI Icm-o SHUMEOKU DemonsEngaged inCulinary Actors inCharacter KEISAI VEIsEN “ The Drama of The Forty» V sevenROnin. Scene III. DI SIGN 3 7 SUBJ ECT KIKUH ARO Lady at the Tea Ceremony . KI TAO SH IGEMASA Illustrationto a Story . XITAO MASAYOSHI Fish KIYOMITSU Womanat Tea KORIUSAI Winding a Clock Street Scene KUNISADA Theatrical Character I Woman in Costume of A Womanat her Toilet The Processes of Colour Printing rep resented by Women Girl ona Windy Day Portraits of H okusaI and Bakin Portraits of Toyokuni I . Yeisen and Kuni s i , yo h NIS HI KAWA SUKENOBU Illustrationfrom the Occu pations of Women RA MASANOBU . The ree Saki asters c OKUMU Th T ( . WomenReading a Roll . View of Lake Biwa (Third Sheet) . Actor InCharacter Of a Noble AnActor InCharacter Landscape inthe Seasonof Cherry Blossom Lady and Attendant Portrait of AO-giya Kwasen AnActor Dancing . Portrait of a Lady . Yegara H eida Killing a Fiery Serp ent SH U NZAN The Gate of the Templeof Asakusa SORAKU Womanwith Small Drum TAC HIBANA M ORI KUNI RokO ( I 71 4) Two Ladies ( 1 740 ) M onkey A EHARA SH UNC H OSAI Lan sca e T K , d p TORII K IYOMINE Portrait of a Girl TORII KIYONAGA A Samurai and Two Girls TORII KIYONOBU LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . om e nBY sosync-r ORII KIYOTSUNE Two G rls inSnow- ime T , i T A Windy Day AnActor Portrait of a Woman TOYOKUNI (GosoTEI) Surimono . i TSUKIOKA SETTEI H ote . TSUKIOKA TANGE H orsemanand Boy UTAMARO Portrait of Utamaro at Work L Portrait of a ady . Yodo Castle on the Yodo Street Performers on New ’ Year s Day I 34 A Promenade 56 A Writing Lesson 1 2 3 L 8 Portrait of a ady . 5 The Death of NittaYoshisada I 04 D N I NTRO UCTI O . DURING the last twenty years such Euro ans as are interested inart have gradually gzcome alive to the faét that there has ex s e in a an a s cen i t d J p , for upw rd of two t es a s s a non tu i , chool of woodcut illu tr tio somewhat different lines to that Of their own a Of the O enits s e p rt world , but ft up rior ' e n a and s es s inboth t ch ic l arti tic r ult . The rowth Of thi s knowledge is interest in an a s s e e e ma se e as , hort k tch th r of y rv a gtting introduétionto a study of the art itself. In 8 1 2 e at s saa Titsin h 1 a . , di d P ri M I c g , who for fourteen years served the Dutch East India Company as Chief of their settle a s ment at N ga aki . During this time he had beenat some pains to acquire all possible n a n as the a s s enes and i form tio to rt , ci c n s es Of the a anese and e e i du tri J p ; , mor ov r , to illustrate his knowledge by many docu a a e the a e b ments. A c t logu of l tt r will e found at the end of the posthumou s comi ilation his essa s and ans a ns of y tr l tio , pub i n ished n e . Ne veu and in Fr ch by M p , ! xiv En ish c ermann he e n gl by A k w r i , am n sun r ma s o s and a n n s o g d y p , bo k , p i ti g , are n e e e w seve al e e s ot d , tog th r ith r oth r it m of a similar nature : ne en a n s ine in s on Ni gr vi g pr t d colour , the sa e n e se a a e s ee s 1 0 m umb r of p r t h t , inches wide and 1 foot 2 inches 9 lines in e e esen n a anese a es in h ight , r pr ti g J p l di a i s v r ous dres es. Now this interesting record probably en i es Titsin h to the n ha n t tl M . g ho our of vi g been the earliest European Colleétor of a anese ur- ns and e na ure J p colo pri t , th ir t may be suggested by another estra of evi ’ dence which comes to us from a Japanese ’ s rce the effeét a the roduétions ou , to th t p of Utamaro were especially prized by Dutch m en. With the ex ceptionof the reproduétion ’ f - ns inOli hant s n of our colour pri t , p Accou t of the Missionof Lord Elginto China and Japan and the reproduétionof some ’ of H okusai sw oodcuts inone of the early ” es ne ' a Wee no e volum of O c k , furth r ‘ attention seems to have beenpaid to the sub eét un the nerna na x n j . til I t tio l E hibitio 1 86 2 i hi the a anese colleétion of , nw ch J p made by Sir Rutherford Alcock excited much wonder and admirationamong those in re i h a n er hto e s e nt e s.