Katsukawa Shunchō Explained

was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints, who was active from about 1783 to about 1795.

Although a student of Katsukawa Shunshō, Shunchō's output, which consists mostly of prints of beautiful women, more closely resembles the work of Torii Kiyonaga.^[1]

Shunchō also designed many shunga prints, which also resemble those of Torii Kiyonaga.^[1]

His work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the British Museum,^[2] the Portland Art Museum,^[3] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,^[4] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,^[5] the Reading Public Museum,^[6] the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art,^[7] the Harvard Art Museums,^[8] the Minneapolis Institute of Art,^[9] the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College,^[10] the Hyde Collection,^[11] the MOA Museum of Art,^[12] the Indianapolis Museum of Art,^[13] the Brooklyn Museum,^[14] the Suntory Museum of Art,^[15] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[16]

References

• Hayashi, Yoshikazu, Kiyonaga to Shunchō, Tokyo, Yuko Shobo, 1976, 135–6.
• Keyes, Roger S. & Keiko Mizushima, The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, 275.
• Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ; OCLC 5246796
• Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei. ; OCLC 61666175

External links

• Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Katsukawa Shunchō (see index)

Notes and References

1. Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, p. 456.
2. Web site: diptych print British Museum. 2021-02-12. The British Museum. en.
3. Web site: Three, from the series The Twelve Months in Six Continuous Sheets. 2021-02-12. portlandartmuseum.us.
4. Web site: Exchange: Figures Promenading by the Sumidagawa [Keyblock print]]. 2021-02-12. exchange.umma.umich.edu.
5. Web site: An Actor and two women walking. 2021-02-12. art.nelson-atkins.org. en.
6. Web site: The Syllable Kyô: The Faded Chrysanthemum. 2021-02-12. collection.readingpublicmuseum.org. en.
7. Web site: Gregory Allicar Museum of Art - Unknown (Two Groups of Women and Man Walking on Bridge/Women and a on Nihon Bridge). 2021-02-12. claembark.libarts.colostate.edu.
8. Web site: Harvard. From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Courtesans. 2021-02-12. harvardartmuseums.org. en.
9. Web site: Lady at Loom, Katsukawa Shunchō ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. 2021-02-12. collections.artsmia.org.
10. Web site: Collections Database. 2021-02-12. museums.fivecolleges.edu.
11. Web site: Katsukawa Shuncho – Artists – Search the Collection. 2021-02-12. emuseum.hydecollection.org. en.
12. Web site: MOA MUSEUM OF ART » コレクション » Three Beauties Representing Snow, the Moon and Cherry Blossoms. 2021-02-12. www.moaart.or.jp.
13. Web site: Actor. 2021-02-12. Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection. en.
14. Web site: Brooklyn Museum. 2021-02-12. www.brooklynmuseum.org.
15. Web site: A Picnic Party in Autumn: Collection Database. 2021-02-12. SUNTORY MUSEUM of ART. en.
16. Web site: Katsukawa Shunchō | Three Beauties | Japan | Edo period (1615–1868) . 2021-02-12. www.metmuseum.org .