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Shunsen KATSUKAWA  -  1762-1830      

Shunsen Katsukawa was a pupil of Tsutsumi Torin III and later of Katsukawa Shunei, from whom he took the name of Katsukawa. He produced bijin (beautiful women), genre scene and landscape prints. In 1823 he gave up printmaking and became a porcelain decorator.
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Notes: later Shunko II. Not same Shunsen who was the pupil of Shunsho.

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Literature sources used for artist biographies:
  • Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
  • Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
  • Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
  • Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
  • Annual CWAJ catalogs