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In this Japanese name, the surname is Katsukawa.

Shunshō Katsukawa (Japanese: 勝川 春章; 1726 – 19 January 1793) 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.

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However, his bijin-ga (images of beautiful women) paintings, while less famous, are said by some scholars^[who?] to be "the best in the second half of the [18th] century".^[1]

Biography

Shunshō first came to Edo to study haiku and painting. He became a noted printmaker of actors with his first works dating from 1760.

Though originally a member of the Torii school, he soon broke away and began his own style, which would later be dubbed the Katsukawa school. Among his students were the famou