Tōshū

1 works by Tōshū (Japanese) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.

Tōshūsai Sharaku 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.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

At a glance

Most of Tōshū's work on the site falls under Paintings (1).

By movement, it's catalogued as Edo period (1615–1868) (1).

Culture: Japanese (1).

By orientation: 1 portrait.

Other Japanese artists of the period

If you like this artist, these contemporaries are catalogued too:

• Utagawa Hiroshige — 2,076 artworks
• Katsushika Hokusai — 1,000 artworks
• Kitagawa Utamaro — 649 artworks
• Tsukioka Yoshitoshi — 646 artworks
• Utagawa Kuniyoshi — 423 artworks
• Shimizu Seifū — 262 artworks
• Imao Keinen — 262 artworks
• Ohara Koson — 211 artworks

Prints of these artworks

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Sizes and framing

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Framed Canvas and Framed Print orders are available in 8 frame colours (Black, White, Natural, Gold, Walnut, Silver, Dark Grey, Light Grey); Canvas and Rolled Canvas have no frame and no glass.