Ippitsusai Bunchô
Ippitsusai Ippitsusai Bunchō (一筆斎文調) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his yakusha-e actor prints in narrow hosoban dimensions. Bunchō and Katsukawa Shunshō are credited with having developed kabuki actor portraiture focuses on producing likenesses of the subjects, rather than stereotyped faces. Little is known about Bunchō's life.
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Ippitsusai Bunchô
Ippitsusai Bunchō · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore · CC0
- Died
- 1794
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- painter · artist · xylographer
- Teachers
- Ishikawa Yukimoto
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Ippitsusai Ippitsusai Bunchō (一筆斎文調) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his yakusha-e actor prints in narrow hosoban dimensions. Bunchō and Katsukawa Shunshō are credited with having developed kabuki actor portraiture focuses on producing likenesses of the subjects, rather than stereotyped faces. Little is known about Bunchō's life.
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Born in 1725, died in 1794.
Training under Ishikawa Yukimoto is recorded. Work by Ippitsusai Bunchô is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Museum of World Cultures, Cleveland Museum of Art, Library of Congress and Rijksmuseum.
Beauties at the Seashore, c. 1765–92, by Ippitsusai Bunchô
Ippitsusai Bunchō · The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Segawa Kikunojo II as the Heron Maiden (from the series Ichimura Theater), 1770, by Ippitsusai Bunchô
Ippitsusai Bunchō · The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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