A girl playing battledore and shuttlecock18th century
Katsukawa Shunshō painted this in 18th century. It is now at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC. More about this work
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Katsukawa Shunshō painted this in 18th century. It is now at the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC.
Katsukawa Shunshō
Japanese, 1726–1792
Shunshō founded the Katsukawa school and changed the way kabuki actors were portrayed, giving them recognisable individual features rather than standard types. From the late 1760s his actor designs, often in the narrow hosoban format, dominated the field. He was also a refined painter of beautiful women, and the young Hokusai spent his early years in his studio under the name Shunrō.
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Public domain. The National Museum of Asian Art has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- F1904.191
- Credit
- Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Type
- Painting
- Department
- National Museum of Asian Art
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
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