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Mori Ippô was an [[Osaka]]-based painter of the early 19th century.
He was known for his paintings of boatmen culling reeds (''mô kari''), a pun on the word for "making a profit" (''mo-ukari'') which made that theme particularly popular in the merchant city of Osaka, though it is hardly seen outside of that city. Mori was so well-known for these paintings that he came to be known by the tongue-in-cheek nickname Môkari Ippô ("making a profit, step-by-step").
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 48.
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