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Shosai Ikkei

Shosai Ikkei (birth and death unknown) is an ukiyo-e artist from the Meiji era.

It is said to be a student of Hiroshige Utagawa. First and last name unknown. At first, it is called Kageshosai, and later it is called Shosai. People from Edo. There is also a theory that it is the name behind Hiroshige Utagawa's master, Hirokage Utagawa. There is also a painter named Ikkei Kunifuku (Utagawa Kunifuku), who has a name that connects a wide view with a view. The only document that describes one view is the table of contents of "Tokyo Famous Places forty-eight Views", which is an introductory text written by Sansantei Manned. According to it, at one point he traveled to Kyoto to study Maruyama Okyo, studied the Shijo school, and later abandoned the painting industry and lived a life of avoiding the world, but in the Meiji era he began to draw caricature nishiki-e at the request of Shobo. .. Therefore, it is thought that Hirokage or Kunifuku studied in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period and resumed painting in Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration, but there is no document to support this.

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