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Toshihide Migita

Toshihide Migita (1863 - 1925) was active/lived in Japan.  Toshihide Migita is known for Landscape and kabuki actor painting, ukiyo-e prints, newspaper and book illustration.

Toshihide Migita was born in 1863 in Oitaken, Shizuoka Province. His father was a Kano school painter. Toshihide studied Western-style painting under Kunisawa Shinkuro (1847-1988). He was was a pioneer of Western-style painting in early Meiji Japan who studied in England under John Edgar Williams. When Shinkuro returned to Japan in 1874, he opened the Shogido art school.

After Shimkuro's death, Toshihide studied with Honda Kinkichiro, who was known for his Western style landscapes. He also attended the school of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, widely known as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting, and studied Japanese-style painting (Nihonga) with Watanabe Shotei (1851-1918). Shotei, known for his more traditional painting style, was one of the first Japanese artists to visit Europe, winning an award at the 1878 International Exhibition in Paris.

Toshihide designed a wide variety of prints including actor prints, bijin-ga (prints of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1583 characters.]  Artist bio

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