Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Toshusai Sharaku have been called the greatest portrait artists of all time. Of the three, Sharaku\'s name is undoubtedly the least widely known....

The whole of the colorful and boisterous history of ukiyo-e-the art of Japanese woodblock prints that arose in the seventeenth century and declined in the nineteenth-can be virtually summarized in the works of two great artists, Okumura Masanobu and Katsushika Hokusai....