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Kitagawa Tsukimaro (, ) was a Japanese
Kitagawa Tsukimaro (, ) was a Japanese ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk ...
artist. He was one of the most successful students of Kitagawa Utamaro ( – 1806), from whom he took the ''-maro''. His early works bear the name "Kikumaro", first written (''kiku'' meaning "chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemums (), sometimes called mums or chrysanths, are flowering plants of the genus ''Chrysanthemum'' in the family Asteraceae. They are native to East Asia and northeastern Europe. Most species originate from East Asia and the center ...
") until 1802, then (''kiku'' meaning "joy eternal") until he changed it in 1804 to "Tsukimaro" (''tsuki'' meaning "moon").
Little is known of Tsukimaro's life. His personal name was ''Jun'' () and he had other nicknames ( or ). He worked as a watchman in Kodenmachō Sanchōme in Edo
Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...
(modern Tokyo), and at some point apprenticed under Utamaro. He specialized in ''bijin-ga
is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women () in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre.
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defines as a picture that simply "emphasizes the beauty of women", and the ''Shincho Encyclopedia of W ...
'' portrait prints of female beauties. In 1804 he was one of the artists along with Utamaro who were arrested and manacled for making illegal prints of the 16th-century military leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi
, otherwise known as and , was a Japanese samurai and '' daimyō'' ( feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.Richard Holmes, The World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations that Changed the C ...
. Around 1820 he changed his name to Kansetsu () and turned to scroll paintings in the Maruyama– Maruyama–Shijō style. His last dated work is an illustration for a '' kyōka'' poetry anthology of 1836. He also used the art name
An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names ''hào'' (in Mandarin), ''gō'' (in Japanese), ''ho'' (in Korean), and ''tên hiệu'' (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by East Asian artists, poets and writers. The ...
s Sumitei () and Shūsai ().
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* 18th-century births 19th-century deaths 18th-century Japanese artists 19th-century Japanese artists Ukiyo-e artists {{Japan-artist-stub