Shōsai Ikkei (昇斎一景) (artist )

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Active in the 1860s and 1870s. The Arizona State University curatorial files state: "As a Tokyo print designer, Shosai Ikkei was a pupil of Utagawa Hiroshige III. He produced meisho-e (images of famous locations) of a radically changing Tokyo during the early days of Western-style modernization. His work includes the set Forty-eight Views of Famous Places in Tokyo (Tōkyō meisho shijūhakkei, 1871) and lively views in Comic Scenes of Thirty-six Famous Places in Tokyo (Tōkyō meisho sanjūroku gisen, 1871 -72), both oban-format (full-sheet of 15 x 10”)."