page_title: Actor Nakamura Shikan II as Satake Shinjuro
section_title: Publisher
hierarchical_section_title: Actor Nakamura Shikan II as Satake Shinjuro / Publisher
caption_attribution_description: English: Actor Nakamura Shikan II as Satake Shinjuro (Shungyosai Hokusei) - Signature and seal detail
context_page_description: Actor Nakamura Shikan II as Satake Shinjūrō is an ukiyo-e woodblock print by Osaka-based late Edo period print designer Shungyōsai Hokusei. It depicts celebrated kabuki actor Nakamura Shikan II as a character in the play Keisei Asoyama Sakura. The print belongs to the permanent collection of the Prince Takamado Gallery of Japanese Art in the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.
context_section_description: The print bears the Honsei [本清] publisher's mark associated with the Shōhonya Seishichi [正本屋清七] publishing house. Honsei was a highly active Osaka publisher run by the Tamaoki Seishichi family. Dates for the company vary depending on the account, but fall generally span the nineteenth century, Honsei produced works by all of the prominent kamigata-e artists of the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. In addition to Hokusei, they collaborated with such artists as: 
  Hokuchō [北長] (fl. 1850s)
  Hokuei [北英] (fl. 1824–1837)
  Hokushū [北洲] (fl. 1810–1832)
  Kuniharu [國春] (fl. 1820s–1830s)
  Utagawa Kunimasu/ Sadamasu [國升/貞升] (fl. 1834–1852)
  Urakusai Nagahide [長秀] (fl. 1805–1842)
  Sadanobu [貞信] (fl. 1834–1879)
  Shigeharu/ Kunishige [重春/國重] (fl. 1821–1841?)
  Shunzan [春山] (fl. 1827–1829)
  Toyohide [豊秀] (fl. 1839–1841)
caption: Signature and seal detail
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