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Sharaku

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Japanese artist (fl. 1794-1795)

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Tōshūsai Sharaku was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known.

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Ōtani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei, nishiki-e colour print, 1794Ōtani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei, nishiki-e colour print, 1794Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Gorō (1789) by Shunkō, a pioneer in ōkubi yakusha-e head portraits of actorsIchikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Gorō (1789) by Shunkō, a pioneer in ōkubi yakusha-e head portraits of actors

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Sui Ishida54.9Yana Toboso54.5Machiko Hasegawa55.0Daidō Moriyama54.5Kitagawa Utamaro55.2Chica Umino54.5

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Tōshūsai Sharaku was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known. His active career as a woodblock artist spanned ten months; his prolific work met disapproval and his output came to an end as suddenly and mysteriously as it had begun. His work has come to be considered some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre.

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Japan
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Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Died 1801
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