Katsukawa Shunsho

b. 1726 — d. 1792

Japanese (culture or style)Asian Art

Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川春章 Japanese, 1726-1792

Timeline

Born 1726 — Died 1792

1170s

Onoe Tamizo as a Samurai Woman

1600s

Woman in a Black Kimono

1610s

Ikunojo III as Chiyosaki Striking the Chozubachi; a Shower of Gold Coin Flies

Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kudo Suketsune, Richly Attired, Leaning on His Sword

Chuban of the Chushingura Drama

1700s

Ichikawa Danjūrō V as Kūdo no Suketsune, and Nakamura Rikō as Oiso no Tora

1720s

Four Actors in Unidentified Roles

The Actor Otani Hiroyemon III

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro 3rd as a Man who Stands with Arms Folded near a Brush Fence

The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as a Fish Peddler

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1750s

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as a Samurai

The Actor Nakamura Nakazō in the Role of Ono Sadakurō

The Second Yamashita Kinsaku as a Woman Standing at Night

Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Hige no Ikyû in “The Soga Play: Announcement of the Spring Season by the Bush Warbler” (“Hitokidori harutsuge Soga”)

1760s

The Third Otani Hiroji as a Man Clothed Only with a Red Apron

Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danzō III

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II (?)

The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Onio Shinzaemon (?) in the Play Bunshin Sugatami Soga (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1765 (?)

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1770s

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Konoshita Hyokichi (?) (right), and Sakata Hangoro II as Matsunaga Daizen Hisahide (?) (left), in the Play Gion Sairei Shinko Ki (?), Perfomred at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Fifth Month, 1775 (?)

Scene at the Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine, from Act One of Chushingura (Treasury of the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers), from the series "Chushingura Juichimai-Tsuzuki (Set of Eleven Sheets Illustrating Chushingura)"

The Actor Nakajima Kanzaemon III, from "A Picture Book of Stage Fans (Ehon butai ogi)"

The actor Nakamura Nakazo as a rokuju-rokubu (pilgrim to Buddhist temple)

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1780s

Kabuki Actor Nakamura Sukegorō II as Kaminari Shōkurō

Ichikawa Danjūrō V in the Scene "Five Chivalrous Commoners" from the Play A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II in an Unidentified Role

The First Nakamura Nakazo in the Role of Kanshojo

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1790s

Three Beauties Chatting by a Veranda

The Third Sawamura Sojuro & the Second Ichikawa Monnosuke as Buddhist Monks

Picture Book on the Music of the Pine Trees (Ehon matsu no shirabe) 絵本松のしらべ

"Mu," page from "Picture Book of the Music of Pines Trees (Ehon matsu no shirabe)"

1820s

Actors [Out of Costume] Like Mount Fuji [Without Snow] in Summer (Yakusha natsu no Fuji), by Ichiba Tsūshō 絵本役者夏富士

1910s

A Mirror of Yoshiwara Beauties

Works

856 artworks

"Tsu": Narihira in the Snow at Ono, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

, 1767

"He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

, 1767

Katsukawa Shunsho

Timeline

Works

"Tsu": Narihira in the Snow at Ono, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

"He": Mt. Fuji, Suruga Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

The Actors Nakamura Sukegoro II as Matano no Goro (right), Onoe Kikugoro I as Soga no Taro (center), and Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Iba no Juzo (?)

Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the Spirit of the Monk Seigen and Nakamura Noshio I as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao in “Courtesan in a Maple-Leaf-Pattern Over-Kimono” (“Keisei Momiji no Uchikake”)

Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Fox-Wife from Furui in “First Performance Day of the Izu Calendar” (“Izu-goyomi Shibai no Ganjitsu”)

Beauties under an Umbrella

The Actors Arashi Sangoro II as Minamoto no Yoritomo (right), Segawa Kikunojo II as Yuki Onna (center), and Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Kajiwara Genta no Kagetoki, in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Kagekiyo Disguised as Omi Yawatanosuke in the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1772

"O": Catalpa Bow, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ogata no Sabura (?) in the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Plate 6 (Examining the Newly Spun Cocoons), from the series "Kaiko Yashinai-gusa"

"Ko," from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

"Ka": A Court Lady Thinks Disconsolately of Her Lover, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

The Actors Onoe Matsusuke I as Yawata no Saburo (right), and Otani Tomoemon I as the Yakko Emohei (left), in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in an Unidentified Role

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada (right), Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Shizuya (center), and Nakamura Matsue I as Sakuragi (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

"Ri": The Well Curb, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

"Nu": Crossing Tatsuta, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"

The Actor Otani Hiroemon III as Shinoda Jirodayu in the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1772

Young Man Carrying a Girl on His Back

The Actors Nakamura Denkuro II as Suma no Dairyo (right), and Ichikawa Komazo II as Ariwara no Yukihira (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

Actors Ichikawa Danjûrô V as the Spirit of the Monk Seigen and Nakamura Noshio I as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao in “Courtesan in a Maple-Leaf-Pattern Over-Kimono” (“Keisei Momiji no Uchikake”)

"Ho": Yatsuhashi Bridge in Mikawa Province, from the series "Tales of Ise in Fashionable Brocade Pictures (Furyu nishiki-e Ise monogatari)"