Ippitsusai’s work is defined by its japanese (culture or style) sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Chizuka no Fumi no Bosetsu (The Evening Snow of a Thousand Bundles of Love-Letters), the Lovers Ohatsu and Tokubei, from the series "Sugata Hakkei (Eight Views of Lovers)"
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro III as Akita Jonosuke in the Play Kawaranu Hanasakae Hachi no Ki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1769
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Flying Tea Ceremony Kettle (Tonda Chagama)
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

Actors Arashi Sangorô II asMinamoto no Yoritomo and Segawa Kikunojô II as the Snow Woman in “Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums” (“Myôto- giku Izu no Kisewata”)
Ippitsusai Bunchô Japanese, active about 1755–90

Nikenjaya no Bosetsu, from the series "Azuma Hakkei"
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu II as a Fashionable Young Man (Wakashu)
Ippitsusai Bunchô Japanese, active about 1755–90

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II in Shakkyo Dance in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Second Month, 1769
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as Kudo Saemon Suketsune (?) in the Play Haru wa Soga Akebono-zoshi (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the First Month, 1772 (?)
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

Waitress at the Minatoya Teahouse
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Chunagon Yukihira (right), and Iwai Hanshiro IV as Murasame (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Goi no Sho Munesada with a Deer, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji (Flower of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90 Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi

The Shrine Dancers (Miko) Ohatsu and Onami
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actors Nakamura Tomijuro I as Enju Disguised as the Shirbyoshi Gio (right), and Nakamura Noshio I as Goo Disguised as Hotoke Gozen (left), in the Play Miyako-zome Gio Katsugi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

Sakata Sajūrō I as a Samurai’s Manservant
Ippitsusai Bunchō Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as the Courtesan Maizuru in the Play Furisode Kisaragi Soga (Soga of the Long, Hanging Sleeves in the Second Month), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the Twentieth Day of the Second Month, 1772
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo II as Oiso no Tora in the Play Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1769
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

Ayase no Yusho, from the series "Bokusui Hakkei"
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

Ofuji of the Yanagi Shop
Ippitsusai Buncho Japanese, active c. 1755-90

Actor Arashi Hinaji I, (possibly) as Yuya Gozen in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (Ima o Sakari Genji)
Ippitsusai Bunchô Japanese, active about 1755–90