Shunro Katsukawa

...An ukiyo-e artist active in the late Edo period. His real surname was Kawamura, and he was born in Warigesui, Honjo, Edo. He was adopted by Nakajima Ise, a mirror maker for the shogunate, and his childhood name was Tokitaro, later changing to Tetsuzo. "Hokusai" was only a temporary artistic name, and he changed it about 30 times in his life. He also called himself "Gakyojin" (a madman of painting), and lived a life of devotion to painting, and had the widest range of work among ukiyo-e artists. In 1778 (7th year of the An'ei era), he became a pupil of Katsukawa Shunsho, and the following year, he began to produce actor paintings under the pseudonym Shunro. Thereafter, he produced actor paintings, sumo paintings, uki-e, and illustrations for kibyoshi. After being expelled from the Katsukawa school around 1794, he studied the Kano, Sumiyoshi, Rinpa, and Western-style painting schools, and took the name Tawaraya Sori II. By his late 30s, he had established his own style of painting, and in 1797, he first took on the pseudonym Hokusai. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Katsukawa Haruo" is listed below.

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…江戸後期に活躍した浮世絵師。本姓は川村氏で，江戸本所割下水（わりげすい）に生まれる。幕府御用鏡師の中島伊勢の養子となり，幼名時太郎，のち鉄蔵と改める。〈北斎〉とは一時の画号で，生涯に30回ほどの改号をする。〈画狂人〉とも号して，画三昧の生活を送り，浮世絵師中で最も作域が広い。1778年(安永7)，勝川春章の門に入り，翌年に春朗と号して役者絵を発表，以後，役者絵，角力絵，浮絵，黄表紙の挿絵を描く。94年ころ，勝川派を破門された後，狩野，住吉，琳派，洋風画派を学び，2世俵屋宗理を名のり，30歳代後半に至って自己の画風を確立，97年に北斎と初めて号した。…

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