Akira Kurosawa with the cast of Rashomon (1950)
Sharaku
Tōshūsai Sharaku (Japanese: 東洲斎 写楽; active 1794–1795) 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.
Tōshūsai Sharaku (Japanese: 東洲斎 写楽; active 1794–1795) 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 artist spanned ten months; his
prolific work met disapproval and his output came to an end as suddenly
and mysteriously as it had begun.
His work has come to be considered
some of the greatest in the ukiyo-e genre.
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