Background
Ito was born Hajime Ito (伊藤一, Itō Hajime) in Asakusa district and started his education in painting by 1890.
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Ito was born Hajime Ito (伊藤一, Itō Hajime) in Asakusa district and started his education in painting by 1890.
Ito"s life was the subject of director Noboru Tanaka"s 1977 Nikkatsu Roman porno film Beauty"s Exotic Dance: Torture!, the final entry in his "Showa Era trilogy". His father was a metalworker and he also received training in ivory carving, later sculpture. He adopted the alias Seiu (Sino-Japanese reading of kanji for words "clear" and "rain") at age 13.
Around 1907, he began working for newspapers.
Ito hired a young art school model named Kise Sahara in 1919. In 1960, he was awarded by the Japan Artists Association (日本美術家連盟, Nihon Bijutsuka Renmei).