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*''Japanese'': 菱川師宣 ''(Hishikawa Moronobu)''

*''Japanese'': 菱川師宣 ''(Hishikawa Moronobu)''

Hishikawa Moronobu was a painter and print designer, considered today one of the chief founders or consolidators of the art form known as ''[[ukiyo-e]]''. Chronologically and stylistically, he represents the last of those who are sometimes called "the Ukiyo-e Primitives" and the first artists of post-Primitive, true ''ukiyo-e''.

Hishikawa Moronobu was a painter and print designer, considered today one of the chief founders or consolidators of the art form known as ''[[ukiyo-e]]''. Chronologically and stylistically, he represents the last of those who are sometimes called "the Ukiyo-e Primitives" and the first artists of post-Primitive, true ''ukiyo-e''. Moronobu may have been the first to sign his works as "''ukiyo-eshi''" ("Master of Pictures of the Floating World," or "Ukiyo-e Master").<ref>Melinda Takeuchi, ''Seduction: Japan's Floating World'', San Francisco: Asian Art Museum (2015), 9.</ref>

Born in [[Awa province]] (today [[Chiba prefecture]]) to a father who embroidered tapestries by trade, Moronobu's first artistic forays involved doing the underdrawings for the embroidery, on cloth. He first settled in [[Edo]] in the late 1660s. Having apparently picked up skills painting in the [[Tosa school|Tosa]] and [[Kano school|Kanô school]] modes, he soon became active as a [[fuzokuga|genre]] painter and book illustrator.

Born in [[Awa province]] (today [[Chiba prefecture]]) to a father who embroidered tapestries by trade, Moronobu's first artistic forays involved doing the underdrawings for the embroidery, on cloth. He first settled in [[Edo]] in the late 1660s. Having apparently picked up skills painting in the [[Tosa school|Tosa]] and [[Kano school|Kanô school]] modes, he soon became active as a [[fuzokuga|genre]] painter and book illustrator.