Gatōken Shunshi

Woodblock diptych by Gatōken Shunshi showing Sawamura Gennosuke II as Ono no Tofu (right) and Kataoka Ichizō I as Tokko no Daroku (left) in the kabuki play Ono no Tofu Aoyagi Suzuri

Signature of Gatōken Shunshi reading “Gatōken Shunshi ga” (画登軒 春芝 画)

Gatōken Shunshi (画登軒 春芝) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1820 to 1828. He was a student of Shunkōsai Hokushū and the teacher of . Gatōken Shunshi is best known for his portraits of the kabuki actors, especially the star .

Other artists names Shunshi[]

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  Signatures of other artists named Shunshi from left to right: “Seiyōsai Shunshi ga” (青陽齋　春子　画) and “Gakōken Shunshi ga”( 画好軒　春枝　画)

There are three other, less well known, ukiyo-e artists called “Shunshi” in English, although each is written with different kanji:^[1]

• 春子 Seiyōsai Shunshi, also known as Shun’yōsai Shunshi, active 1826–8. Possibly an early name of .^[2]
• 春枝 Gakōken Shunshi, a student of Gatōken Shunshi, active in the mid-1820s
• 春始 a student of Gatōken Shunshi, active in the 1830s

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References[]

• Keyes, Roger S. & Keiko Mizushima, The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, 276.
• Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192114471; OCLC 5246796
• Newland, Amy Reigle, The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2005, Vol. 2, 488.
• Roberts, Laurance P., A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1976, 157.

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