Shuncho, Katsukawa

(1726-1793) (Japan); aka Shunsho, Katsukawa / Shuncho, Yushido / Toshien / Churinsha / Sanko / Shuncho, Kissado

   Woodblock printmaker. Specialized in portraying actors and beautiful women amid bucolic scenery, such as picnic scenes. Foremost follower of Kiyonaga, he is generally considered to have surpassed his master in production of Shunga. Reproductions: The adulterer; c1785; Beurdeley, 1977: p. 245 . Album Koshoku zukai juni-ko; c1788: Faglioli, 1997: plates 61, 62 . Autumn humdrum, from Koshoku Zukai Juhi-ko ("Twelve view of erotic pictures"); c1780; Ronin, 1979: fig. 29 [B]. [Closeups of genitals in sexual activity]; c1800; Rawson, 1981: plate 165 [B]. [Copulating couple]; Klinger, 1982a: figs. 59, 60, 61 [B]. [Copulating couple]; late 1780s; woodblock; Rawson, 1983: plate 30 [C]. [Copulating couple]; c1785; woodblock; Beurdeley, 1977: pp. 180, 249 [B]. [Copulating couple], from Twelve ways of making love; c1785; Beurdeley, 1977: p. 245 [B]. [Copulating couple] [attributed to]; Fagioli, 1997: p. 66 [C]. [Copulating couples]; Klinger, 1984: plates XXXIV-XXXVIII [C] / Evans, 1975: figs. 6.38, 6.39 [C]. [Couple copulating in seated position], from Koshoku-zue Juni-ko; mid 1780s; woodblock; Rawson, 1983: plate 29 [C]. [Couple in foreplay]; c1785; Beurdeley, 1977: p. 204 [B]. Courtesan and young man, from Twelve ways of making love; c1785; Beurdeley, 1977: p. 252 [B]. Courtesan whispering love secrets; c1790; Ronin, 1979: fig. 32 [B]. [Elaborately cloaked couple copulating]; Gnojewski, 2004: p. 28 (lower) [C]. [Entwined lovers] [attributed to]; Fagioli, 1997: p. 65 [C]. Festive scenes; 1780s; Kronhausen, 1970c: p. 231 [B]. Illustration from ehon haikai yobuko-dori; Klinger, 1982a: figs. 63-65 [B]. Illustration from Hyaku-bobo-gatari ("100 stories of love"); Klinger, 1982a: figs. 62, 66 [B]. Illustrations from Ehon Kishi no Himematsu; c1800; Fagioli 1997: plates 59, 60 [C]. [Kissing couple copulating]; c1785; Beurdeley, 1977: p. 207 [C]. Love between young woman and actor; c1785; Beurdeley, 1977: p. 256 [B]. Love with a geisha, from Twelve ways of making love; c1785; Beurdeley, 1977: pp. 253, 255 [B]. Lovers becoming familiar; late 18th century; Rawson, 1981: plate 159 [C]. [Lovers in foreplay], from Twelve seasons f lovemaking; c1785; Illing, 1978: plates 16, 19 [C]. Lovers on a balcony; Cawthorne, 1997: p. 107 [C]. [Lovers play with chord] [attributed to Shun-cho, also to Utamaro or his school]; 1785-1790; Fagioli, 1997: plate 63 [C]. Lovers with attendant in Yoshiwara; Rawson, 1981: plate 147 [C]. Making love in winter; Cawthorne, 1997: p. 93 [C] / Raw-son, 1981: plate 139 [C]. Making love to a Shinzo, from Twelve ways of making love; c1785; Beurde-ley, 1977: p. 251 [B]. [Man enters woman from the rear] [attributed to Shuncho, also Utamaro]; Fagi-oli, 1997: p. 64 [C]. [Man fingering his lover]; Gnojewski, 2004: pp. 32, 25 [C]. [Sex scenes]; Evans, 1975: colorplates 10, 11 [C], figs. 6.42-6.46, 6.48-6.56 [B]. Tender embrace, from Koshoku Zukai Juhi-ko ("Twelve view of erotic pictures"); c1780; Ronin, 1979: fig. 28 [B]. Two lovers embrace, from Koshoku Zukai Juhi-ko ("Twelve view of erotic pictures"); c1780; Ronin, 1979: fig. 30 [B]. Two young lovers; c1790; Ronin, 1979: fig. 33 [B]. [Woman raped by two men], from Ehon Kaname-ishi (Eros' foundation stone); 1782; woodblock; Klinger, 1984: fig. 636 [B]. Young woman and seducer; from Koshoku Zukai Juhi-ko ("Twelve view of erotic pictures"); c1780; Ronin, 1979: fig. 31 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 12: p. 1146; ThB XIX 1926: p. 593.