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Katsukawa  Shun'ei
Katsukawa Shun'ei
Katsukawa  Shun'ei

Katsukawa Shun'ei

born Edo, Japan, 1762; died Edo, Japan, 1819
BiographyShunei Katsukawa was a prolific and successful woodblock print artist. Most active from the mid-1780s through the 1790s, his earliest known work is an illustrated book published in 1782. He is credited as one of the first artists to popularize the emerging okubi-e, or “big head,” style portraits. In addition to actor prints, Shunei designed studies of sumo wrestlers.

[source: www.roningallery.com, accessed March 2022]
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