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182 Other pupils of Torin were as follows: Sawa Sekkio (Hayashi Catalogue, No. 1007); Umpo (ibid., No. 1011); Riusai Masazumi (ibid., No. 1015).

Katsukawa Shuntei produced, besides actor scenes and pictures of celebrated wrestlers, some very dramatic compositions from history and legend, mostly in grey, green, and yellow, but owing to ill-health his output was small; the early impressions of his works are especially rare. According to the Hayashi Catalogue (No. 785) he was a pupil of Shunyei. He is to be looked upon as a forerunner of the historic school that arose about 1830. Of his works the following are cited:—

Kuraiyama homare no yokozuna, a tale. 1812.

Nanko seichu gwaden, the history of the faithful Kusunoki Masashige, 4 vols. 1815.

Itogoromo Tengu Baikai(?), a tale, 6 vols. About 1815.

Most celebrated in his two-volume work, the Game of the Young Prince.

The seven gods of fortune, surimonos.

The contest of a hero with a monstrous serpent (illustrated in Strange, page 38).

Shinsai, who is mentioned as an early pupil of Hokusai (about 1800-10), would be better classed with Shumman. Eight views of Lake Omi in the "Dutch" style are by him; he also worked at surimonos; one with two crabs is reproduced by Gillot.

Bokusen, in Owari, was Hokusai's contemporary; in his house, in 1812, the plan for the Mangwa first originated; he himself, in 1815, brought out a similar collection of sketches, Bokusen sogwa, 8vo, in polychrome. Duret mentions a peculiar book by him: Kiyogwayan, the Garden of Caricatures (Uagoya, 1815).