Watanabe Shōtei
Training under Kikuchi Yōsai is recorded. Toshikata Mizuno and Tomioka Eisen are recorded as having studied under Watanabe Shōtei. Places of work recorded in the authority are Japan.
Also recorded as Watanabe Seitei · Watanabe Shotei · Watanabe Shoutei · Watanabe Seitei (Shotei)
Watanabe Shōtei
National Diet Library · Public domain
- Born
- 1852 · Kanda-Sakumachō.
- Died
- 1918 · Nihonbashi-Hamachō.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · illustrator
- Teachers
- Kikuchi Yōsai
In this article
Identity and overview
Employment is recorded with Kiritsu Kōshō Kaisha. Work by Watanabe Shōtei is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, National Museum of World Cultures, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. It is also recorded that watanabe Shōtei was born in 1852 at Kanda-Sakumachō. It is also recorded that watanabe Shōtei died in 1918 at Nihonbashi-Hamachō.
The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.
Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that watanabe Shōtei worked at Japan. Recorded with the occupation printmaker. The record continues: watanabe Shōtei is recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded as a citizen of Japan. It is also recorded that watanabe Shōtei is recorded with the gender male. Born on 18 January 1852. Institutional cataloguing adds that watanabe Shōtei died on 2 April 1918.
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Kanda-Sakumachō.
Birth place
Nihonbashi-Hamachō.
Death place
Where the work is held
Collections and holdings
Institutional holdings are recorded as follows.
Primary material
Documents and archives
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3566605: Watanabe Shōtei
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
reference work
- “Watanabe Shōtei”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
Institutional database
Wikidata, structured authority record Q3566605: Watanabe ShōteiWikimedia Foundation
Verifiedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
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