Japan: 'The Lesser Water Dragon Year of the Tenpo Era' (Tenpo mizunoe tatsu): Chinese beauty with dragon-headed lute (pipa). Totoya Hokkei (1780 - 1850), 1832

Totoya Hokkei was a Japanese printmaker and book illustrator. He initially studied painting with Kano Yosen (1735-1808), the head of the Kobikicho branch of the Kano School and okaeshi (official painter) to the Tokugawa shogunate.

Together with Teisai Hokuba (1771-1844), Hokkei was one of Katsushika Hokusai's best students.

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