Hasegawa Settan

Hasegawa Settan (長谷川雪旦,^[1] 1778–1843)^[2] was a Japanese artist who lived during the late Edo period, born in Edo.

His given name was Munehide (宗秀), and his art-name was Gengakusai Ichiyōsai (巌岳斎 一陽庵). He was commonly called Gotō Uzaemon (後藤右衛門). He was originally a wood sculptor and he carved the woodblocks for many ukiyo-e prints. The Edo meisho zue, an illustrated catalogue of the sights of Edo for which he provided in the woodcuts, is one of his major works.^[2][3][4] For his artistic accomplishments, Hasegawa Settan was awarded the honorary Buddhist title Hokkyō (法橋 "Bridge of the Dharma").^[5]

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  Drawing of a seal that washed up on a beach near Karatsu
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References

1. Goree 2017, p. 411.
2. Graham, Patricia Jane (2007). Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005. University of Hawaii Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8248-3191-2.
3. Douglas 1897, p. 13.
4. Shirane, Haruo (5 March 2013). Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. Columbia University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-231-15281-5.
5. "Japanese art and the eclectic style of Hasegawa Settan". Modern Tokyo Times. 28 June 2022.

Sources

• Douglas, R. K. (1897). "Japanese Illustrated Books". In Pollard, Alfred William (ed.). Bibliographica. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner. pp. 1–29. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Goree, Robert (2017). "Meisho zue and the Mapping of Prosperity in Late Tokugawa Japan" (PDF). Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. 6 (2): 404–439. doi:10.1353/ach.2017.0023. ISSN 2158-9674.