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[su_label type=”info”]Toshusai Sharaku(東洲斎写楽)[/su_label]

It was only ten months between 1794 and 1795 that Toshusai Sharaku worked as an ukiyo-e painter. But in the meantime, he has left over 140 kabuki actor portrait.

[su_label type=”black”]Mysterious ukiyo-e artist[/su_label]

Although many people made various theories who he was, no one can’t find any definitive proof. Perhaps only limited people, such as the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo(蔦屋重三郎) who also published the pictures of Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai knew the identity.

Except for some of the sumo wrestlers, most of his paintings were Yakusha-e(pictures depicting popular Kabuki actors). Especially the painting using the same method as Utamaro’s beautiful women portrait Ookubi-e(大首絵) had the power to overwhelm the others. He drew the upper half of the actor’s body. Addition to that, he boldly deformed and depicted the expression of Kabuki actor on the stage.

However, the methods were not accepted by people in Edo. After all, he became to draw the whole body of Kabuki actor at the end of his production period. Such pictures did not enlarge the pictures of people who were advanced including Utagawa Toyokuni and Katsukawa Shunei. Tsutaya Juzaburo had never published a picture with Sharaku’ssignature and seal since in February 1795.

[su_label type=”black”]Gallery of Sharaku’s “Ookubi-e” artworks[/su_label]

The third Sanokawa Ichimatsu as Onayo at Gioncho and Ichikawa Tomiemon as Sagisaka Toma

Tanimura Torazo as Sagisaka Yaheiji

Matsumoto Yonezaburo as Shosho at Kehaizaka actually Shinobu

Ichikawa Ebizo as Takemura Jonoshin

Ichikawa Omezo as Yakko Ippei

The fourth Iwai Hansiro as Shigenoi

The fourth Matsumoto Koshiro as San’ya fish seller Gorobei

The second Segawa Tomizaburo as Ookishi Kurando’s wife Yadorigi and Nakamura Mansei as Wakakusa

Ootani Tokuji as Yakko Sodesuke

The first Onoe Matsusuke as Matsushita Zoshunoshin

The second Segawa Tomizaburo as Ookishi Kurando’s wife Yadorigi

Ootani Onizi as Yakko Edobei

The second Arashi Ryuzo as money lender Isibe Kinkichi

Osagawa Tsuneyo as Sakuragi

The third Ichikawa Yaozo as Tanabe Bunzo

The third Segawa Kikunojo as Nakaya Ohama

Tomizaburo as Ohisa

Nakamura Wadaemon as Bourada Chozaemon and Nakamura Konozo as the shipping agent Gon of Kanagawa

Nakamura Tomizaburo as Miyagino

The second Ichikawa Monnosuke as Date-no Yosaku

The second Kawamura Yodogoro as Kawatsure Hogan and Bando Zenji as Oni Sadonobo

The 8th Morita Kan’ya as kago bearer Zirosaku

The second Yamashita Kinsaku as Nakaya Okane actually Sadato’s wife Iwate gozen

The second Arashi Ryuzo as Yakko Namihei

The second Nakamura Nakazo as farmer Tsuchizo actually Koretaka Prince

The third Bando Mitsugoro as Ishii Genzo

The thrid Segawa Kikunojo as Oshizu, a wife of Tanabe Bunzo

The third Sakata Hangoro as Fujikawa Mizuemon

The third Bando Hikosaburo as Sagisaka Sanai

Sanogawa Ichimatsu as Onayo at Gioncho

The thrid Sawamura Sojuro as Oogishi Kurando

Nakayama Tomizaburo as Ohisa

Ichikawa Komazo as Shiga Daishichi

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