Gatōken Shunshi
Illustration — 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 • Illustration — 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 Gakōken Shunshi. Best known for his portraits of the kabuki actors, especially the star Onoe Tamizō II. Gatōken Shunshi was a student of Shunkōsai Hokushū, and the apparent leader of a subgroup of followers that included at least two other artists signing with the name Shunshi, written with different characters.
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Illustration — 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 • Illustration — 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 Gakōken Shunshi. Best known for his portraits of the kabuki actors, especially the star Onoe Tamizō II. Gatōken Shunshi was a student of Shunkōsai Hokushū, and the apparent leader of a subgroup of followers that included at least two other artists signing with the name Shunshi, written with different characters.
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He specialised in portraits of the actor Onoe Tamizō II, the son of a theatrical wig-maker, a skilled dancer known for a versatile, somewhat clownish stage persona owing to his short, stocky build and his limited education, presumably including illiteracy; despite this, Tamizō enjoyed a long career and a devoted following in the chū-shibai, Osaka's secondary theatres. When the young Tamizō returned to Osaka in 1823 after a three-year absence spent training under Onoe Kikugorō III in Edo, a number of artists working in nearly identical styles within Shunshi's circle began to feature him prominently in their prints.
• Illustration — 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: • 春子 Seiyōsai Shunshi, also known as Shun’yōsai Shunshi, active 1826–8. Possibly an early name of Hokumyō. • 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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- 1.Milone, Marco. Ukiyo-e. L'Erudita. 405. 2022. 9788867707270.
- 2.Roberts, 1976, p. 157
- 3.Roberts, 1976, p. 157
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