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Hokushu, artist
Japanese, active 1808 - 1832
Actors Nakamura Shikan and Nakamura Kashichi as Kukuoka Mitsugi and the Prostitute Oshika, circa 1820 - 1830
color woodcut
38.3 x 26 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.5827

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Artist Biography: Go= Hokushu (from 1818), Sekkatei, Shokosai (ca. 1811), Shunko (until 1818), Shunkosai,Osaka printmaker, owner of large paper store in Osaka, said to have been a pupil of Hokkusai, known to have studied with Shokosai Hambei, a leading designer of Osaka actor prints.

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