Sharaku
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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
Ōtani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei, nishiki-e colour print, 1794
Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Soga no Gorō (1789) by Shunkō, a pioneer in ōkubi yakusha-e head portraits of actors
Sawamura Sōjurō III as Ogishi Kurando
Segawa Kikujurō III as Oshizu, Wife of Tanabe
Utamaro
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Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of bea
Portrait by Eishi, 1815
Ase o fuku onna (Woman Wiping Sweat), Ukiyo-e, 1798
Takashima Ohisa using two mirrors to observe her coiffure
Ukiyo-e of yama-uba with blackened teeth and Kintarō (Yamanba and Kintaro Sakazuki series)