About Tosa Mitsusuke
Lived 1675 – 1710 (aged 34–35). Tosa Mitsusuke was a painter.
was a Japanese artist in the middle period of the Edo era. He was the 18th head of the Tosa school.
Tosa school Painters that belonged to the Tosa were good at painting in the Yamato-e style. Successive heads of the Tosa served the Emperors as edokoro-azukari (Official court painter).
Biography In 1696, he succeeded his father's occupation and became an official court painter. In 1709, he did paintings of room partitions in the royal palace and in the Sento palace with Kano Tsunenobu. He died in 1710 at the age of 36.
Family His father was Tosa Mitsunari.
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Who was Tosa Mitsusuke?
painter (1675-1710)
When was Tosa Mitsusuke born?
Tosa Mitsusuke was born in 1675.
When did Tosa Mitsusuke die?
Tosa Mitsusuke died in 1710.
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Tosa Mitsusuke was a painter.
What nationality was Tosa Mitsusuke?
Tosa Mitsusuke's recorded nationality: Tokugawa shogunate.
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