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Surname Taga; personal names Jokei and Jihei; studied with Shitomi Kangetsu (son and pupil of Tsukioka Settei); Osaka addresses Horie Kameibashi or Kita-Horie 4-chôme; then later at Nanba Shinchi Kyôbashimachi.
Seminal print designer credited as the founder of the Osaka School (at least as early as 1784 with the illustrated book Yakusha mono iwai) and with introducing nishiki-e in Kamigata; worked as a portrait painter and book illustrator, but also designed 40 to 60 single-sheet prints issued as triptychs (attributions are hampered by various unsigned examples in the Ryûkôsai style); as a printmaker, worked primarily in the hosoban format (nearly all from the early 1790s); cited in Denki sakusho (1843) by the playwright Nishizawa Ippô as actor portraitist whose likenesses were admired by connoisseurs; prints are quite rare and much sought after by collectors and curators.
Pupils included Shôkôsai.; Ryûkôsai II; Rankôsai(?); Hotta Yukinaga; Nagashide(?)
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