SHARAKU,TOSHUSAI. Asano,Shugo & Matthi Forrer. — Sharaku.

Tokyo, The Tokyo Shimbun, 2011. 335 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. softcover. 4to.Published on the occasion of the Toshusai Sharaku exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum, May 1-June 12, 2011. Title also in Japanese. Text in Japanese and English. - Curatorial supervison by Shugo Asano & Matthi Forrer. - - Toshusai Sharaku (active 1794 - 1795) 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.