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...self-declared pioneer of "floating-world pictures," or ukiyo-e, was painter Okumura Masanobu, and the show has seven of his best. Woman Turning Around (1688-1704), for instance, exudes spontaneity, elegance as well as the faint air of melancholy that is typical of ukiyo-e?a reminder that pleasure is often best when bittersweet. Soon, however, the public wanted not just emotion but cheap, portable souvenirs of their visits to the pleasure pits?even if they lacked the nerve to actually enter. To the occasion rose the wood-block printmaking business. At first its images were mainly black...
Other officers elected were Masanobu Horiyama '96, vice-president, Franklin S. Barreno '95, secretary and Jonathan N. Rezneck '96, treasurer...
...Japanese officer assigned to organize the overthrow of all this Blimpism was Colonel Masanobu Tsuji. A hard-eyed veteran of the Kwantung Army who made an intense study of jungle warfare, he tested what he had learned by training his troops in fierce heat, with little food or water. When they were crammed onto transport vessels for the stormy southward voyage, they carried pamphlets that said their mission was to free "100 million Asians tyrannized by 300,000 whites." To military headquarters in Tokyo, Tsuji confidently -- and pretty accurately -- predicted that if the war started on Nov. 3, "we will...
...work by Moronobu "Lovers in an Autumn Meadow." This artist was responsible for bringing art to the masses and, as shown by the work, dealt entirely in black and white. About 1714 colors were first used, which tended to popularize the prints even more. Working in this period was Masanobu, who shows by "Sukeroku" a great technical advance over his contemporaries...
...Ficke exhibited prints made by Moronobu, the first and greatest master in the history of Japanese Prints, by Kijonobu, Masanobu, the greatest of his time, by Kijomitsu and Toyonobu, the most brilliant of the designers of the later part of the Primitive Period...