Focus on Actor Nakamura Shikan II as Satake Shinjuro and discuss the Artist.
Very little biographical information is available for Shungyōsai Hokusei. Although one source identifies his life dates as 1818 to 1829, most biographical records simply date his period of activity as being sometime between 1826 and 1828. Known predominantly for his yakusha-e kabuki actor portraits, he is named as a pupil of Shunkōsai Hokushū [春好斎北洲] (fl. 1810–1832) on one of the latter's prints.Although associated with the gō Shungyōsai, Shungyōsai Hokusei is usually referred to as Hokusei. One reason for this is to distinguish him from two other Osaka-based ukiyo-e artists who shared the same gō: Shungyōsai I  (c. 1760–1823; fl. 1790s–1820s) and his son Shungyōsai II (n.d.–1867; fl. 1820s–1860s).Works by Shungyōsai Hokusei belong to the permanent collections of museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Royal Ontario Museum, Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection, the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University.
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