Artist

Shunbaisai Hokuei

Portrait of Shunbaisai Hokuei

Japanese, b. 1837

Shunbaisai Hokuei is a Japanese Ukiyo-e artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Shunbaisai Hokuei, 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.

Collections represented

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