# Tsukimaro

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{{Short description|Japanese ukiyo-e artist}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=December 2016}}
{{family name hatnote|Kitagawa|lang=Japanese}}
thumb|alt=|''Courtesan with servant'', 1814

'''Kitagawa Tsukimaro''' ({{lang|ja|喜多川 月麿}}, {{floruit|{{circa|1794–1836}}}}) was a Japanese [ukiyo-e](/source/ukiyo-e) artist.  He was one of the most successful students of [Kitagawa Utamaro](/source/Kitagawa_Utamaro) ({{circa|1753}} – 1806), from whom he took the ''-maro''.  His early works bear the name "'''Kikumaro'''", first written {{lang|ja|菊麿}} (''kiku'' meaning "[chrysanthemum](/source/chrysanthemum)") until 1802, then {{lang|ja|喜久麿}} (''kiku'' meaning "joy eternal") until he changed it in 1804 to "Tsukimaro" (''tsuki'' meaning "moon").{{sfn|Marks|2012|p=112}}

Little is known of Tsukimaro's life.{{sfn|Marks|2012|p=112}}  His personal name was ''Jun'' ({{lang|ja|潤}}) but he also had other nicknames <!-- ??? -->({{lang|ja|子達}} or {{lang|ja|士達}}).{{sfn|Fujikake|1946|p=162}}  He worked as a watchman in Kodenmachō Sanchōme in [Edo](/source/Edo) (modern Tokyo), and at some point apprenticed under Utamaro.  He specialized in ''[bijin-ga](/source/bijin-ga)'' portrait prints of female beauties.  In 1804 he was one of the artists along with Utamaro who were arrested and manacled for making illegal prints of the 16th-century military leader<!-- Hideyoshi was NOT shogun --> [Toyotomi Hideyoshi](/source/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi).  Around 1820 he changed his name to '''Kansetsu''' ({{lang|ja|観雪}}) and turned to scroll paintings in the Maruyama–[Maruyama–Shijō](/source/Shij%C5%8D_school) style.  His last dated work is an illustration for a ''[kyōka](/source/ky%C5%8Dka)'' poetry anthology of 1836.{{sfn|Marks|2012|p=112}}  He also used the [art name](/source/art_name)s '''Sumitei''' ({{lang|ja|墨亭}}) and '''Shūsai''' ({{lang|ja|逎斎}}).{{sfn|Fujikake|1946|p=162}}

==References==

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===Works cited===

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* {{cite book
|last         = Fujikake
|first        = Shizuya
|title        = Zōtei Ukiyo-e
|script-title = ja:増訂浮世絵
|language     = ja
|trans-title  = Ukiyo-e Revised Edition
|url          = http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1068936
|date         = 1946
|oclc         = 36205779
}}
* {{cite book
|last      = Marks
|first     = Andreas
|title     = Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680–1900
|year      = 2012
|publisher = Tuttle Publishing
|isbn      = 978-1-4629-0599-7
}}

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