The colour-prints of Japan : an appreciation and history / by Edward F. Strange.

  • Strange, Edward Fairbrother, 1862-1929.
Date:
1904
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Credit: The colour-prints of Japan : an appreciation and history / by Edward F. Strange. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE EARLY MASTERS The Popular School of painting in Japan, of which colour-printing was the most important outcome, was founded (as Mr. Arthur Morrison has been the first European to show) by Iwasa Sho-i Matabei (or Matahei), a man of romantic birth and history, who was much employed by the Shogun lyemitsu ; and died at the age of seventy-three, at Yedo, in the year 1650. He is not to be confused with his son, called Matabei II. (Katsushige) ; with an obscure Kyoto painter Tosa Sho-i; or with Matahei of Otsu, vvho wrote his name differently, and died at the begin- ning of the eighteenth century. The two Matabei (father and son) lived long enough well to overlap the work of Moronobu, their greatest but not their only immediate successor.