Saturday 2 December 2017

92 – Shunsen: Kingfisher on Bamboo


Ukiyo-e. Kachô-e. Aizuri-e. Shunsen.
Shunsen: Kingfisher on Bamboo
 
Here we have a kachô-e, Kingfisher on Bamboo. It is also an aizuri-e, that is to say that the only colour is blue.

Katsukawa Shunsen (1762 - about 1830) also called himself Shunkō II when he succeeded Shunkō I as the head of the Katsukawa school.