Tsukioka Settei (, 1710 – 22 January 1787) was a Japanese

ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk ...

artist. Settei was born in

Ōmi Province was a province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō circuit. Its nickname is . Under the ''Engishiki'' classification system, Ōmi was ranked as one of the 13 "great countri ...

and studied painting in Osaka in the style of the

Kanō school The is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting. The Kanō school of painting was the dominant style of painting from the late 15th century until the Meiji period which began in 1868, by which time the school had divided into many d ...

under . He was strongly influenced by the work of the ukiyo-e artist Nishikawa Sukenobu. Settei's produced a number of printed works, but his ''

bijin-ga is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women () in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre. Definition defines as a picture that simply "emphasizes the beauty of women", and the ''Shincho Encyclopedia of W ...

'' paintings of female beauties are considered his most representative works. Tsukioka Settei.jpg Style of Tsukioka Settei Erotic Book, late 18th century-early 19th century.jpg Tsukioka Settei, The Treasure Chest of Erotic Women in Ecstasy (Iroonna dairaku takara-beki), 1751.jpg Tsukioka Masanobu Settei - Beautiful woman playing with cat - Google Art Project.jpg Beauty Admiring a Warbler on a Plum Tree LACMA AC1998.237.2.jpg

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Tsukioka Settei
at ukiyo-e.org 1710 births 1787 deaths Ukiyo-e artists Artists from Shiga Prefecture {{Japan-artist-stub