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GOSEI, Hotei   (fl. 1804 - c. 1835) (= Hokuga, a Hokusai pupil)		A kogai hair ornament made of tortoiseshell in a box with a tie-dyed tegara-cloth (for hair)
		Signed:                     Gosei ga Seals:                       Go and sei Date:                          c. 1820 Size:                          shikishiban (21.4 x 19 cms) Poem by Togentai Chiharu about the tortoiseshell hair ornament Condition: Very good impression and colors, lower right corner slightly rubbed, else very good condition. Lacquered patterns overprinted onto the black color, metallic color pigments.

Gosei is best known as an ukiyo-e painter of beautiful women and illustrator of kyoka anthologies. He first was a pupil of HOKUSAI, from whom he received the name Hokuga. Around 1810 he changed his name to Gosei and became famous for his surimono designs for the Gogawa poetry circle, from which he borrowed the first syllable of his own name. Another impression is illustrated in: the catalog of the oriental collection of the Trieste Museum for History and Art, Trieste, Italy, 1998.

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