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(3) Katsukawa Shun’ei [Isoda Hisajiro; Kutokusai]
(b Edo [now Tokyo], 1762; d Edo, 1819). Print designer and book illustrator. Shun’ei became (1) Katsukawa Shunsho’s student at an early age, and by 1782 he was already producing illustrations for kibyoshi (‘yellow cover’ books; comic novels). Originally, Shun’ei’s strength was mushae (‘pictures of warriors’), and many of his early nishikie (‘brocade pictures’; full-colour prints) deal with this theme. Shun’ei started making yakushae (’pictures of actors’) around 1790. Like his fellow student (2) Katsukawa Shunko, Shun’ei produced prints in the style of Shunsho. At the same time Shun’ei developed yakushae in his many okubie (‘large-head pictures’). Sansei Segawa Kikunosuke no Aburaya Osome (‘The actor Segawa Kikunosuke III as Aburaya Osome’) and Ichikawa Ebizo no Mita no Tsukau (‘The actor Ichikawa Ebizo as Mita no Tsukau’; woodblock, 1795; Honolulu, HI, Acad. A.; see fig.) are two of Shun’ei’s representative works.
Part of the Katsukawa family
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