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He has been criticised for having popularised the fashion of the long silhouette in women and giving these figures unrealistic proportions.... but his portraits of women, with their distorted proportions, remain works of an art which is marvellous and eminently Japanese.

Gun’Prostitute (Teppo),“Five Shades of Ink in Northern Quarter(1794-95)