
The Actor Nakamura Karoku I as Fujiya Azuma
1827 · Color woodblock print; sheet from oban tetraptych
35.6 × 25.7 cm (14 × 10 1/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago

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Shunshosai Hokuchō was a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist active in the Osaka area during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was a member of the Shunkōsai Fukushū school of artists, and studied under Shunkōsai Hokushū (春好斎北洲). His original surname was Inoue (井上), and he used the gō art names Shunsho (春曙) (1822-1824), Hokuchō (北頂) (1824-1830), Inoue Shunshosai (井上春曙斎).
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