Gatōken Shunshi (画登軒 春芝) was a designer ofukiyo-eJapanese woodblock prints inOsaka who was active from about 1820 to 1828. He was a student ofShunkōsai Hokushū and the teacher ofGakōken Shunshi. Gatōken Shunshi is best known for his portraits of thekabuki actors, especially the starOnoe Tamizō II.

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  Signatures of other artists named Shunshi from left to right: “Seiyōsai Shunshiga” (青陽齋　春子　画) and “Gakōken Shunshiga”( 画好軒　春枝　画)

There are three other, less well known,ukiyo-e artists called “Shunshi” in English, although each is written with differentkanji:^[1]

• 春子 Seiyōsai Shunshi, also known as Shun’yōsai Shunshi, active 1826–8. Possibly an early name ofHokumyō.^[2]
• 春枝 Gakōken Shunshi, a student of Gatōken Shunshi, active in the mid-1820s
• 春始 a student of Gatōken Shunshi, active in the 1830s

• Keyes, Roger S. & Keiko Mizushima,The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973, 276.
• Lane, Richard. (1978).Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 9780192114471;OCLC 5246796
• 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, 157.

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