Ryuryukyo Shinsai

Ryukyo Shinsai (birth and death unknown) is an ukiyo-e artist from the Edo period.

A student of Katsushika Hokusai. The surname is unknown, the first name is Masayuki, commonly known as Hanjiro. It was also called Manno Hanji. It is called Tatsusai, Yanagi, Yanagihanaen, etc. It is said that he was a landlord in Koyanagi-cho and Shinishi-cho, Kanda, when he was born in Edo. At first, he learned painting from Rinpa Tawaraya Sori and was given the title of "Yanagii". After that, he began his career during the period when Hokusai called himself Tatsumasa (Kansei 11th year-7th year of culture), and took over the character "Tatsumi" and used them as paintings.

The drawing period was from the latter half of the Kansei era to the first half of the Bunsei era, and he mainly drew kyoka surimono, kyoka books, illustrations for reading books, nishiki-e and hand-painted bijin-ga. Also, during the Cultural Bunsei period, he drew landscape paintings with a frame of orchid characters like Keisai Eisen, and also drew landscape paintings of Edo famous places with flower patterns and Chinese-style pattern frames. There is. In addition to the eight-disc set of "Omi Hakkei", a landscape painting with a Western-style depiction influenced by Hokusai, about 10 hand-drawn beauty paintings are known. Most of Tatsusai's nishiki-e are unsubscribed except for the "Eight Views of Omi" series, but they are unique Western-style landscape paintings that use perspective and shading. One example is "Omi Hakkei Ishiyama Akizuki". In addition, the unsubscribed large-format nishiki-e "Ohashi" depicts Ryogokuohashi and Ekoin on the opposite bank of the Sumida River using perspective.

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