Shunbaisai Hokuei
Shunbaisai • Illustration — Signatures of Shunbaisai Hokuei reading from left to right: “Shunkōsai Hokuei” (春江斎 北英), “Sekkarō Hokuei ga” (雪花楼 北英 画), and “Shunkō ga” (春江 画) • Illustration — Keisei Ura no Asagin Woodblock print by Shunkôsai Hokuei. The play "Keisei Ura no Asagin" describes an unsuccessful attempt by a villain named Karahashi, a subject of the Aboshi clan, to steal the clan treasures and install his son as leader. In act 3, Kowari Dennai, a hunter who is a relative of the true heir, is traveling to the Aboshi domains to settle the succession.
Also recorded as Shunkō III
Shunbaisai Hokuei
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- Born
- 1750
- Died
- 1837
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- painter · ukiyo-e artist · xylographer
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Born in 1750, died in 1837.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Osaka. Work by Shunbaisai Hokuei is recorded in the collections of Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.
Ichikawa Hakuen II (Ichikawa Danjūrō VII) as Saeda Masaemon
Shunkosai Hokuei Active in Japan between 1829 and 1837 Details on Google Art Project · hQGBMVCO3NMyhQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level
Arashi Rikan II as Iemon Confronted by an Image of His Murdered Wife, Oiwa, on a Broken Lantern, Referring to Katsushika Hokusai’s Hyaku monogatari (One Hundred Ghost Stories)
Shunbaisai Hokuei · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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