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YOSAI [Kikuchi] (1781-1878)

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YOSAI [Kikuchi] (1781-1878)

YOSAI [Kikuchi] (1781-1878) , See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese painter, was the son of a samurai named Kawara, of Yedo. He was adopted by the Kikuchi See also:

FAMILY

family, who were old hereditary retainers of the See also:

TOKUGAWA

Tokugawa See also:

CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan. When eighteen, he became a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Takata Enjo; but, after studying the principles of the See also:

KANO

Kano, Shijo, and Maruyama See also:

SCHOOLS

schools—in the latter, perhaps, under Ozui, a son of Okyo—he See also:

DEVELOPED

developed an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent See also:

style, having some See also:

AFFINITIES

affinities with that of Tani Buncho. He was one of the last of the See also:

GREAT

great painters of See also:

JAPAN

Japan; and his illustrated See also:

HISTORY

history of Japanese heroes, the Zenken Kojitsu, is a remarkable specimen of his See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power as a draughtsman in See also:

black and See also:

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