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Katsukawa Shunsho

Also known as: Shunshô, Miyagawa Shunshô, Ririn, Yûsuke, Jûgasei, Kyokurôsei, Rokurokuan, Shuntei, Yûji, Shun-jo, Katsukawa Shunshô, Katsugawa Shunshô
Date of birth: 1726
Date of death: 1792

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The Actor Otani Hiroji III as Kawazu no Saburo in the Play Myoto-giku Izu no Kisewata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770, c. 1770
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Nakamura Noshio I in an Unidentified Role, c. 1773
Katsukawa Shunsho
Actors Segawa Kikunojô II as Reizei, Ichikawa Komazô I as Suruga no Hachirô, and Ichikawa Yaozô II as Tada no Kurando in “The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith” (“Ima o sakari suehiro Genji”), About 1768
Katsukawa Shunsho
Weaving silk, plate 11 from the series “Silkworm Cultivation (Kaiko yashinai gusa)”, c. 1772
Katsukawa Shunsho
Ichikawa Danjūrō V as a Skeleton, Spirit of the Renegade Monk Seigen, and Iwai Hanshirō IV as the Cherry Princess, in “Flower of Edo: An Ichikawa Saga” (Edo no Hana Mimasu Soga), c.1783
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Nakamura Matsue I as Kasaya Sankatsu (?) in the Play Hana no Gosho Konegen Butai (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Eighth Month, 1772 (?), c. 1772
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Arashi Hinaji I as Hananoi in the Play Gosho-zakura Horikawa Youchi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fourth Month, 1773, c. 1773
Katsukawa Shunsho
Actors Ichikawa Danjôrô V as Gokuin Sen’emon, Bandô Mitsugorô I as An no Heibei, and Nakamura Sukegorô II as Kaminari Shôkurô in “A Soga Drama on the First Festival Day in the Pleasure District” (“Hatsumombi Kuruwa Soga”), About 1780
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II as Tsukimasu, Acting as Sakura-maru, in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Seventh Month, 1773, c. 1773
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Ono Sadakuro in the Play Kanadehon Chushingura, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Sixth Month, 1783, c. 1783
Katsukawa Shunsho
Act Eight: Bridal Journey, from the play “Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura)”, c. 1779/80
Katsukawa Shunsho
The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kaeribana Eiyu Taiheiki, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1779, c. 1779
Katsukawa Shunsho

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Foreign Faces in Japanese Prints
Jan 20–Apr 8, 2007

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