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186 Japanese wood-engravings of our own times. His most celebrated work is the fifty-four folio sheets illustrating the novel Genji Monogatari, which in the year 1857 was followed by a smaller series on the same subject. He also, together with his younger classmate Kuniyoshi, illustrated the Tokaido and other works. He died in 1865, at the age of seventy-eight years. Fenollosa (Outline, pl. xviii.) reproduces a triptych by him. Of his works the following are mentioned:—

Triptych: a young girl on the seashore (about 1806, according to Fenollosa, No. 394).

Pentaptych: the great Sumida bridge.

Series:—

The actor Icchosai in his chief comic parts, 48 sheets, fol.

Actor prints, above each an orchestra of five musicians, fol.

Actors in half length, 8vo.

The courtesans, 118 sheets, fol.

Genji Monogatari, at the top of every sheet a fan with various designs, 54 sheets, fol. 1828.

Azuma Genji, 54 pictures of women, with variants on Genji Monogatari, 8vo.

Miyomato Mansashi, ghost pictures and others, 124 sheets, fol.

Joso sanju rokukisen, occupations of women, fol.

Hana no sugatami, more than 60 theatrical scenes, 12mo, with the names of the different provinces where the scenes take place.

Anderson's Catalogue cites several works of the years 1827-32. Strange reproduces, at page 50, three of his sheets; Gonse, i. page 98, a surimono.

Kunisada's contemporary, Kikuchi Yosai, also called Takiyasu, endeavoured, although he belonged to the naturalistic Shijo school, to arrest the decay of art by approaching to the old Tosa style. Born in Kioto in 1787, he first studied under a