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Personal name Shima Jinsen; pupil of Shôkôsai Hanbei; briefly associated with the Edo master Katsushika Hokusai during a visit to Osaka in 1818 (cited as a copyist-pupil of Hokusai in Hokusai gashiki ["Hokusai's painting style"], 1819); listed in first position as an actor portraitist on the single-sheet broadside Naniwa shoryû gajin meika annai ("Guide to the many famous contemporary artists of Osaka") circa 1831, where his Osaka address is said to be Ishiyabashi Higashizume.

Arguably the most important print artist in Osaka during the 1810s-20s, designing many of Osaka's printed masterpieces; credited with establishing the mature Osaka style in the ôban format; widely influential through his printmaking and teaching.

Pupils include Shunchô; Shunbaisai Hokuei; Shunsho[Shunshosai Hokuchô]; Shungyôsai Hokusei; Hokushinsai Shunzan; Hokumei [not the same as Hokuei's pupil of that name, with second character written differently]; Shunshin; hori Kasuke [cited as a pupil on a print from 1822, but far more celebrated as a block cutter]; Shun'yôsai Hokkei; Shunchôsai Hokushô; Baien; Baikosai Shunkei; Shunsho [Shun'yô]; Seiyôsai Shunshi; Gatôken Shunshi; Shunkin; Shunkyo.