Japanese, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1747, in Edo (now Tokyo); died 1818, in Edo.
Painter, engraver.
Kokan, a pupil of Harunobu (1725?-1770), one of the great ukiyo-e masters, is infamous as one of the most brilliant forgers of his master’s work, openly admitting his wrongdoing in his autobiography ...
