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JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS
Here belong also his sheets in surimono style:—
- The play scene with seventeen actors.
- Five sheets of a series (Gonse Coll. in Paris, see Goncourt, p. 257) and two sheets of the same series (Bing Coll. in Paris).
- Three sheets in narrow vertical form, but not kakemono-ye (Coll. Gillot in Paris, see Goncourt, p. 259).
Of the kakomeno-ye may be mentioned:—
- A woman standing, leaning against a lattice, at her feet crouches another, playing with a casket (Coll. Gillot).
- A woman bending down towards a young girl and carrying a child on her back (Coll. Bing).
- A woman fishing, below a young man in a boat (Bing).
- A young man carrying a young woman on his back.
- Two girls playing the game of Makura-hiki, oblong.
Of single sheets, we may name the following:—
- A young woman crouching allows a white mouse to run over her arm, while another, looking on, holds in her arms a child playing with a wooden horse.
- A woman nursing her child under a mosquito net.
- A mother and child reflected in a basin of water.
- A mother tossing her child in the air (la gimblette).
- The maid of the inn, front and back view, on two sheets made to fit over each other exactly; a magnificent facsimile of this is in Kurth (pl. 24).
- The stationer Jihei abducting Koharu, the singing girl, half-length (la sortie nocturne).
- Benten, the goddess of fortune, appearing to Utamaro (illustrated in Kurth, pl. 11).
Books in black and white:—
- Four prints with songs from plays date from 1776-77, and are signed Kitagawa Toyokira (Hayashi Catalogue, No. 1649). His earliest book is the Hundred Ronins, 20 sheets: Yedo, 1777.
