Hasegawa Settan (長谷川雪旦, 1778–1843) was a

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artist who lived during the late

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

, born in

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. 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

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prints. The ''

Edo meisho zue is an illustrated guide describing famous places, called '' meisho'', and depicting their scenery in pre-1868 Tokyo, then known as Edo. It was printed using Japanese woodblock printing techniques in 20 books divided among seven volumes. Ini ...

'', an illustrated catalogue of the sights of Edo for which he provided in the woodcuts, is one of his major works. For his artistic accomplishments, Hasegawa Settan was awarded the honorary Buddhist title Hokkyō (法橋 "Bridge of the Dharma"). File:Gyoruifu seal.jpg, Drawing of a seal that washed up on a beach near

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* * 1778 births 1843 deaths Buddhist artists Japanese painters Artists from Tokyo Metropolis {{Japan-painter-stub