ABSTRACT
In the portraits of actors and women, and in fact in all figure and head studies, and sometimes even in small figures introduced into a landscape, it will be noticed that a fixed convention is adopted in drawing the face, which is invariably half-way between full-face and profile—a convention admirably adapted to portray all the features. The Japanese artist fully realised the limitations of the process of producing colour-prints; to have attempted to secure realistic effects would have sacrificed the charming results of which the process was capable in a hopeless effort to attain others beyond it. Prayers to spare at least his wife and children, who were innocent, were unavailing, and before dying Sogoro swore their ghosts should torment the Hotta family in revenge for their murder. In deities there are the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, who are always treated humorously.
