Shunkosai Hokushu (?), who is also known as Shunko IV, was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1802 to 1832. He is known to have been a student of Shokosai Hambei, and may have also studied with Hokusai. He used the name Shunko until 1818, when he changed his name to “Shunkosai Hokushu”. Little is known about the life of the masterful Osaka print designer, painter, and book illustrator Shunkôsai Hokushû , active circa 1802-32. He appears to have made a living as a businessman (possibly as a lumber or paper merchant). Exemplifying the skilled amateur ukiyo-e artist of nineteenth-century Osaka, he created rarefied images of kabuki actors while relying on something other than print design for his primary livelihood. He participated in poetry clubs (haikai and kyôka) and was a kabuki enthusiast, with membership in at least one fan club. Most important, he was the leading actor-print designer of his generation. He used five signatures over the course of his career: Shunkô , from 1/1802 until 1/1818; Shunkôsai alone from 8/1809, or in tandem with Hokushû from 1/1818; Shôkôsai (his teacher’s art name) for only one print in 9/1811, on which he includes aratame (“changing to”) announcing the name change to Shôkôsai (II); Sekkatei in 1819 as a proofing copyist for an ehon by Katsushika Hokusai (Denshin kaishu Hokusai gashiki) and in 1822 on two single-sheet prints; and Hokushû alone from 1/1818 until the end of his career. The title of the female print is. Keisei Hinatsuru Jitsuha Shokuro Wife Kocho Nakamura Utaroku. Both images are documented online at the WASEDA UNIVERSITY CULTURAL RESOURCE DATABASE. The first photo is from the online database and the rest are of the actual framed prints you will receive. They are 19-½ by 15-¼ inches and are ready to hang.