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Kuroda Toko 黒田稲皐
Kuroda Toko (1785–1846) was a member of the samurai class from Tottori. He moved to Edo after studying with the official painter to the lord of his native province. Toko’s teacher, Hijikata Torei, had studied in Kyoto with Maruyama Ōkyo. Toko established a reputation for meticulously rendered bird-and-flower paintings based on shasei and was especially renowned for his paintings of carp.