Excerpt from The Masters of Ukioye: A Complete Historical Description of Japanese Paintings and Color Prints of the Genre School
This is a most beautiful example of the new style. The lines are well cut and sharply impressed upon a fine paper. For tan Kiyo nobu substituted ben 23, a fugitive vegetable, red. With it, and dull purple and blues, he combined in a most original way a rich yellow.
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