Tsukioka Settei

In this Japanese name, the family name is Tsukioka.

Tsukioka Settei (月岡 雪鼎, 1710 – 22 January 1787) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist.[1]

Settei was born in Ōmi Province and studied painting in Osaka in the style of the Kanō school under Takada Keiho. He was strongly influenced by the work of the ukiyo-e artist Nishikawa Sukenobu. Settei's produced a number of printed works, but his bijin-ga paintings of female beauties are considered his most representative works.[1]

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Works cited

  • Kobayashi, Tadashi (2006). Ukiyo eshi retsuden 浮世絵師列伝. Bessatsu Taiyō (in Japanese). Heibonsha. ISBN 9784582944938. 
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