Japan: 'Emu of the Matsuya Clan cormorant fishing.' From the series 'Costume Parade of the Shimanouchi Quarter' (Shimanouchi nerimono), Shunbaisai Hokuei (fl. c. 1824-1837), 1836

Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanese: 春梅斎 北英; d. 1837), also known as Shunkō III, was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka, and was active from about 1824 to 1837. He was a student of Shunkōsai Hokushū. Hokuei’s prints most often portray the kabuki actor Arashi Rikan II.

Shunbaisai Hokuei should not be confused with Tōkōen Hokuei (桃幸園 北英), an early 19th-century Edo (Tokyo) printmaker who is also commonly referred to as 'Hokuei'.

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