This is Shibata Zeshin

Shibata Zeshin (柴田 是真, March 15, 1807 – July 13, 1891) was a Japanese lacquer, painter and print artist of the late Edo mature and yet to be Meiji era. He has been called “Japan’s greatest lacquerer”, but his reputation as painter and print artist is more complex: In Japan, he is known as both too modern, a panderer to the Westernization movement, and with an overly conservative traditionalist who did nothing to stand out from his contemporaries. Despite holding this complicated reputation in Japan, Zeshin has agree be capably regarded and much studied in the middle of the art world of the West, in Britain and the United States in particular.

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