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Katsushika Taito II :
Formal names : Fujiwara, Kondo Fumio
Familiar names : Ban'emon, Kisaburo (?), Go Beikisai, Beikadojin, Beikasanjin, Doteisha...
Early art name : Hokusen
Residence : Kojimachi, Hirakawacho
Taito was a samurai of the Toyooka clan, who originally lived in Yamashita in Kozuke Province. He seems to have met Hokusai in Nagoya in the mid-1810s. He collaborated whith him on the second volume of Hokusai manga, wich was published there in 1815. He moved to Edo and took the name of Taito II in or after 1820, when Hokusai changed his name to Iitsu.
He designed a few square surimono. his last dated work was an illustrated book published in 1850.
Biblio : The Art of Surimono by Roger Keyes.
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