Artist

Katsukawa Shunko

132130

Works

Painter

Style

Katsukawa’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Selected works

132130 pieces

Waitress at a Seaside Teahouse

Katsukawa Shunko Japanese, active c. 1770s-1800

The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Osan in the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Yoshizawa Ayame IV as Yadorigi, the Sister of Nikaido Shinanosuke, Disguised as Orie, the Wife of Aoto Magosaburo, in Part Two of the Play Motomishi Yuki Sakae Hachi no Ki (Looking up at Falling Snow: Thriving Potted Trees), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1778

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue in the Play Yuki Nazuna Saiwai Soga, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the First Month, 1787

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo III as Princess Hatsune (Hatsune Hime) (right), and Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Miyukinosuke Yukinari, in the Play Otokoyama Furisode Genji, Performed at the Kiri Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1785

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Bando Mitsugoro I as Ogata no Saburo Disguised as Yoroya Takiemon in the Play Mure Takamatsu Yuki no Shirahata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kajiwara Heiji (?) in the Play Hiragana Seisuiki (?), Performed at the Morita Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1776 (?)

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as An no Heibei in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as a Mendicant Monk (Gannin Bozu) in the Play Keisei Ide no Yamabuki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1787

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

Half-Length Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu in Act Three of the play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka (Returning Home in Splendor), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro III as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao in the Play Takao Daimyojin Momiji no Tamagaki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1787

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

The Actor Segawa Tomisaburo II as Lady Masago (Masago Gozen) (?) in the Play Genji Saiko Kogane no Tachibana (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Eleventh Month, 1788 (?)

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

Flower (Hana)

Katsukawa Shunsen (Shunko II) Japanese, 1762-c. 1830

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV as Hitomaru Disguised as the Geisha Oshun in the Play Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Third Month, 1783

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812

Actors Nakamura Nakazô I as Danshichi Kurobei and Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Issun Tokubei in “Mirror of Osaka in the SummerFestival” (“Natsu MatsuriNaniwa Kagami”)

Katsukawa Shunkô Japanese, 1743–1812

Yamashita Kinsaku II in an Unidentified Role

Katsukawa Shunko (Japanese, 1743-1812)

Actors Iwai Hanshirô IV, Ichikawa Monnosuke II, and Sakata Hangorô III, in “Snowflakes: Raising the Standard at Izu” (“Mutsu no Hana Izu no Hataage”)

Katsukawa Shunkô Japanese, 1743–1812

Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Retired Emperor Sutoku

Katsukawa Shunkô Japanese, 1743–1812

The Actor Nakayama Kojuro VI as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as Lady Hotoke (Hotoke Gozen) in the Play Yukimotsu Take Furisode Genji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1785

Katsukawa Shunko I Japanese, 1743-1812