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Katsukawa Shunshō

1726 - 1793

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Katsukawa Shunshō is the 1,567th most popular painter (down from 1,403rd in 2019), the 1,153rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,017th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Katsukawa Shunshō ranks 1,567 out of 2,023. Before him are L. A. Ring, Maria Wiik, Ivan Aguéli, Paul César Helleu, Christian Rohlfs, and Olja Ivanjicki. After him are Dionisius, Henri Regnault, Robert Henri, Nicolaas Pieneman, Francisco Rizi, and Tetyana Yablonska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1726, Katsukawa Shunshō ranks 17. Before him are Daniel Chodowiecki, Alexander Ypsilantis, Princess Louise of Denmark, Gabriel François Doyen, Princess Wilhelmina of Hesse-Kassel, and Charles Burney. After him are Eggert Ólafsson, Jovan Rajić, Vasily Chichagov, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Thomas Pennant, and Alexander Kokorinov. Among people deceased in 1793, Katsukawa Shunshō ranks 45. Before him are William Hudson, Leopold Hofmann, Charles de Bonchamps, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Carl Gustaf Pilo, and Roger Sherman. After him are Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Peter Perez Burdett, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, William Robertson, and Gilbert White.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Katsukawa Shunshō ranks 1,153 out of 6,245. Before him are Tite Kubo (1977), Chica Umino (null), Akira Kamiya (1946), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Shinichirō Watanabe (1965), and Masuji Ibuse (1898). After him are Akira Ifukube (1914), Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), Masaaki Kato (1958), Hironobu Sakaguchi (1962), Akihito Kusunose (1986), and Takeshi Okada (1956).

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Among PAINTERS In Japan

Among painters born in Japan, Katsukawa Shunshō ranks 29. Before him are Kuroda Seiki (1866), Ogata Kenzan (1663), Toyohara Chikanobu (1838), Hiroshi Yoshida (1876), Uemura Shōen (1875), and Maruyama Ōkyo (1733). After him are Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), Hashimoto Gahō (1835), and Keiji Inafune (1965).

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