Katsukawa Shunsen
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Katsukawa Shunsen #22,433Established

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personJapanese, 1762–1830
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Selected Works15

Museum Acquisitions

LACMA
Sightseeing Couple at Married Rocks (Futamigaura)
Sightseeing Couple at Married Rocks (Futamigaura), 1810
Acquired 2006
Color woodblock print; surimono
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Lady Yuya (Yuya Gozen) (?) in the Play Heike Hyobanki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1789 (?)
The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Lady Yuya (Yuya Gozen) (?) in the Play Heike Hyobanki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1789 (?), 1789
Acquired 1963
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Hatakeyama Shigetada in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Hatakeyama Shigetada in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789, 1789
Acquired 1940
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke
Acquired 1940
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Art Institute of Chicago
Travelers in Snow
Travelers in Snow
Acquired 1940
Color woodblock print
Art Institute of Chicago
Flower (Hana)
Flower (Hana)
Acquired 1940
Color woodblock print; oban
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Fuji Sakon (?) in the Play Egara Tenjin Risho Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1789 (?)
The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Fuji Sakon (?) in the Play Egara Tenjin Risho Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1789 (?), 1789
Acquired 1940
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786, 1786
Acquired 1939
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790
The Actor Asao Tamejuro I as Drunken Gotobei in the Play Yoshitsune Koshigoe Jo, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Ninth Month, 1790, 1790
In museum collection
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Plant Seller Awashima no Yonosuke in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as the Plant Seller Awashima no Yonosuke in the Play Mukashi Otoko Yuki no Hinagata, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1781, 1781
In museum collection
Color woodblock print; hosoban
Art Institute of Chicago
The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Lady Yuya (Yuya Gozen) (?) in the Play Heike Hyobanki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1789 (?)
The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Lady Yuya (Yuya Gozen) (?) in the Play Heike Hyobanki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1789 (?), 1789
In museum collection
Color woodblock print; hosoban

Previous Sales

Sotheby's
Two Courtesans of the Yoshinoya Seated Beside a Brazier
Two Courtesans of the Yoshinoya Seated Beside a Brazier
Sold
Mar 2023
Sotheby's
Women gathering salt from the sea using buckets, salt burner’s huts in the distance, signed Kanshosai Shunsen ga; Awabi divers, signed Shunkosai Shunsen ga, censor's seal kiwame, published by Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo); Women and oxen, signed Shunkosai Shunsen ga, censor's seal kiwame, published by Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo)
Women gathering salt from the sea using buckets, salt burner’s huts in the distance, signed Kanshosai Shunsen ga; Awabi divers, signed Shunkosai Shunsen ga, censor's seal kiwame, published by Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo); Women and oxen, signed Shunkosai Shunsen ga, censor's seal kiwame, published by Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendo), 1820
Sold
Dec 2021
Bonhams
A beauty
A beauty, 1806
Sold
Sep 2021
Christie's
Takigawa from the House of Ogiya
Takigawa from the House of Ogiya, 1807
$3,250
Sep 2021
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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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Untitled
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2014 · Accession 2014.724.1 · Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Gift of Judy Blum, 2014
Sightseeing Couple at Married Rocks (Futamigaura)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2006 · Accession M.2006.136.46 · Color woodblock print; surimono
The Joan Elizabeth Tanney Bequest
The Actor Yamashita Mangiku I as Lady Yuya (Yuya Gozen) (?) in the Play Heike Hyobanki (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Seventh Month, 1789 (?)
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1963 · Accession 1962.987 · Color woodblock print; hosoban
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson
The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro IV as Hatakeyama Shigetada in the Play Edo no Fuji Wakayagi Soga, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the First Month, 1789
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1940 · Accession 1939.2215 · Color woodblock print; hosoban
Clarence Buckingham Collection
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1940 · Accession 1939.1822 · Color woodblock print; hosoban
Frederick W. Gookin Collection
Travelers in Snow
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1940 · Accession 1939.1752 · Color woodblock print
Frederick W. Gookin Collection
Flower (Hana)
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1940 · Accession 1939.1048 · Color woodblock print; oban
Frederick W. Gookin Collection
The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III as Fuji Sakon (?) in the Play Egara Tenjin Risho Kagami (?), Performed at the Nakamura Theater (?) in the Third Month, 1789 (?)
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1940 · Accession 1939.894 · Color woodblock print; hosoban
Frederick W. Gookin Collection
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I as Ashikaga Takauji in the Play Kumoi no Hana Yoshino no Wakamusha, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1786
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1939 · Accession 1938.544 · Color woodblock print; hosoban
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Untitled
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1922 · Accession JP1351 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Rogers Fund, 1922
勝川春泉画　三代目大谷廣次|Kabuki Actor Ōtani Hiroji III
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1914 · Accession JP172 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Rogers Fund, 1914
Untitled
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1914 · Accession JP173a–c · Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Rogers Fund, 1914
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death
Katsukawa Shunsen dies
Jan 1, 1830
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birth
Katsukawa Shunsen born
Jan 1, 1762