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Typical signature of Katsukawa Shunchō reading “Shunchō ga ” (春潮 画)
Katsukawa Shunchō (勝川 春潮 ) was a Japanese designer of
ukiyo-e style
Japanese woodblock prints , who was active from about 1783 to about 1795.
Although a student of
Katsukawa Shunshō , Shunchō's output, which consists mostly of prints of beautiful women, more closely resembles the work of
Torii Kiyonaga .
[1]
Shunchō also designed many
shunga prints, which also resemble those of
Torii Kiyonaga .
[1]
His work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the
British Museum ,
[2] the
Portland Art Museum ,
[3] the
University of Michigan Museum of Art ,
[4] the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ,
[5] the
Reading Public Museum ,
[6] the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art,
[7] the
Harvard Art Museums ,
[8] the
Minneapolis Institute of Art ,
[9] the
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College ,
[10] the
Hyde Collection ,
[11] the
MOA Museum of Art ,
[12] the
Indianapolis Museum of Art ,
[13] the
Brooklyn Museum ,
[14] the
Suntory Museum of Art ,
[15] and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art .
[16]
Gallery
Woodblock print by Katsukawa Shunchō titled “Viewing Flowers in Four Seasons” (
Shiki no hanami )
Courtesans in front of the Great Gate (Ōmon) of the Shin-
Yoshiwara pleasure district, 1780s.
Notes
References
Hayashi, Yoshikazu, Kiyonaga to Shunchō , Tokyo, Yuko Shobo, 1976, 135–6.
Keyes, Roger S. & Keiko Mizushima, The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints , Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, 275.
Lane, Richard . (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780192114471 ;
OCLC 5246796
Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei.
ISBN
9789074822657 ;
OCLC 61666175
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