Japan: The courtesan 'Willow Tea' (Yanagicha), from the series 'A Set of Willows' (Yanagi ban tsuzuki), Totoya Hokkei (1780 - 1850), c. 1828

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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