Katsukawa Shunkō (active 1770–1790)
Katsukawa may refer to: *Katsukawa school, school of Japanese ukiyo-e art, founded by Miyagawa Shunsui *Katsukawa Shunchō, designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints, active from c. 1783 to c. 1795 *Katsukawa Shunkō I (1743–1812), designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Edo (Tokyo) *Katsukawa Shunsen, designer of books and ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints *Katsukawa Shunshō (1726–1792), Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school {{disambiguation, surname Japanese-language surnames ...
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Katsukawa School
The Katsukawa school (勝川派, ''-ha'') was a school of Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' art, founded by Miyagawa Shunsui. It specialized in paintings (''nikuhitsu-ga'') and prints of kabuki actors (''yakusha-e''), sumo wrestlers, and beautiful women (''bijin-ga''). The painter Miyagawa Shunsui changed his surname to Katsukawa. One of his students, Katsukawa Shunshō, took his surname and abandoned the school's tradition of painting well-dressed beauties in favour of ''yakusha-e'' portraits of kabuki actors, a domain once dominated by the Torii school. This new focus revived the actor print, which had lost popularity after Suzuki Harunobu's portraits of beauties rose to prominence in the late 1760s. Shunshō introduced the ''ōkubi-e'' "large-headed picture" in the 1760s. He and other members of the Katsukawa school, such as Shunkō, popularized ''ōkubi yakusha-e'' prints and the dusting of mica in the backgrounds to produce a luxurious glittering effect. Shunsui was the son and stu ...
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