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| Toshusai Sharaku art links |
Toshusai Sharaku Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Tokyo National Museum, Japan
2 works online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Actors Sawamura Sojuro and Segawa Kikunojo, 1794
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Information about the 2007 exhibition Sharaku - Contemporary Variations on Classical Japanese Prints
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
Toshusai Sharaku at the The British Museum, London, UK
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "Asian" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Signatures of Ukiyo-e Artists
Includes a brief description of how to interpret a Ukiyo-e signature
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
J. Noel Chiappa's Home Page
Viewing Japanese Prints
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Toshusai Sharaku 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
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