Japan: Bamboo shoots. Totoya Hokkei (1780–1850)

Totoya Hokkei was a Japanese printmaker and book illustrator. He initially studied painting with Kano Yosen (1735-1808), the head of the Kobikicho branch of the Kano School and okaeshi (official painter) to the Tokugawa shogunate. Together with Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844), Hokkei was one of Katsushika Hokusai's' best students.

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