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Katsukawa Shunjo

Katsukawa Shunjo (birth year unknown-July 1, 1787 ) is an ukiyo-e artist in the middle of the Edo period.

A master of Katsukawa Shunsho. Real name, Iwakura Yasuda. The law number is the cause of the Buddhist sect. Anei-During the Tenmei period, he drew fine-sized nishiki-e, illustrations on the yellow cover, and numbered paintings. Among the students of Shunsho, he was a very talented painter. In Nishiki-e, two small-sized pieces "Sawamura Sojuro Nakamura Utaemon" (Hiraki Ukiyo-e Museum UKIYO-e TOKYO collection), fine-sized "Hanshiro Iwai", and large-sized "Ichikawa Monnosuke Sawamura Sojuro" are known. I also drew a hand-drawn beauty painting. Among them, the double-width "Yu-kun Kamuro-zu, Kaoru and Nakai-zu" (collected by the New Otani Museum), which was collaborated with Katsukawa Shouncho of the same gate, is famous. Harutsune depicts a geisha who rushes to the invited tatami room and goes on a summer night road where willow leaves grow, and a Nakai with a shamisen box and lanterns in his hand. The graveyard is Zenshoji Temple in Nishiasakusa, Taito-ku.

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