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Katsukawa Shunsho

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Shunshō Katsukawa was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshō studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Chōshun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists. Shunshō is best known for introducing a new form of yakusha-e, prints depicting Kabuki actors. However, his bijin-ga paintings, while less famous, are said by some scholars to be "the best in the second half of the [18th] century".

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Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen, and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess, in “Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga” (Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga)

1783 · Color woodblock print; hosoban diptych

Right: 32.9 × 15 cm (12 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Left: 32.9 × 15.2 cm (12 15/16 × 6 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Drama of Hikeyahike Kanhiki Dojoji

1780 · Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

A: 12 7/8 x 5 5/8 in. (32.7 x 14.3 cm) B: 12 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (32.4 x 14.6 cm) C: 12 3/4 x 5 7/8 in. (32.4 x 14.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō V

1774 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

H. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm); W. 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo with a Sword, Fighting the Actor Ichikawa Raizo II who is Armed with a Lance

1769 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

H. 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm); W. 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in an Unidentified Role

1768 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

32 × 15.9 cm (12 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Arashi Hinaji I as Hananoi in the Play Gosho-zakura Horikawa Youchi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1773

1768 · Color woodblock print; hosoban; left sheet of diptych (?)

30.5 × 14.3 cm (12 × 5 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Actor Nakamura Matsue I as Kasaya Sankatsu (?) in the Play Hana no Gosho Konegen Butai (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1772 (?)

1767 · Color woodblock print; hosoban

33.5 × 15.1 cm (13 3/16 × 5 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Weaving silk, plate 11 from the series "Silkworm Cultivation (Kaiko yashinai gusa)"

1767 · Color woodblock print; chuban

24.8 × 18.4 cm (9 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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