Shunkōsai Hokushū (春好斎　北洲), who is also known as Shunkō IV, was a designer of

ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock printing, woodblock prints and Nikuhitsu-ga, paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes ...

style Japanese woodblock prints in

Osaka is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...

who was active from about 1802 to 1832. He is known to have been a student of Shōkōsai Hambei, and may have also studied with

Hokusai , known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock print series ''Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'' includes the iconic print ''The Gr ...

. He used the name Shunkō (春好) until 1818, when he changed his name to Shunkōsai Hokushū. He was the most important artist in

during the 1810s and 1820s and established the Osaka style of

actor prints ''Yakusha-e'' (役者絵), often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ''ukiyo-e'' style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and i ...

.Newland, 2005, p. 488

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References

* Keyes, Roger S. & Keiko Mizushima, ''The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints'', Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, 266. * Lane, Richard. (1978). ''Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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* Newland, Amy Reigle, ''The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints'', Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2005, Vol. 2, 488. * Roberts, Laurance P., ''A Dictionary of Japanese Artists'', Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1976, 49. Ukiyo-e artists 19th-century Japanese artists {{japan-artist-stub