Word: harunobu
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...prints to be shown in the Exhibition date from 1680 to 1780, and illustrate the first and second periods of the art of color printing--from the black and white prints colored by hand through the use of two and three color-blocks and including the work of Harunobu, who was the first to realize the possibilities of full color printing, and who perfected this...
...Moronobu, the first great master in the history of Japanese Prints, Klyonobu, Masanobu, the greatest of his time, whose works are now very scarce, Klyomitsu and Toyonobu, the most brilliant of the designers of the later part of the Primitive Period, will be shown, and also prints by Harunobu and Shunsho, who took advantage of the processes developed by Harunobu to produce his great actor prints...