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Toshusai Sharaku
(Japanese woodblock-print designer, active 1794-1795)
Japanese, (active 1794–1795)
Sharaku is considered the most enigmatic genius of all Ukiyo-e artists. His prints suddenly showed up in 1794 and one year later they had dispappeared. Nobody knows where this artist came from and what had suddenly happened to him. There are about 140 prints known. The fate of Sharaku is one of the great mysteries that still has to be solved in the history of Ukiyo-e printmaking. ---artelino.com

* Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
* Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
* Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
* Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
* Annual CWAJ catalogs


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