Ippitsusai Bunchô

Ippitsusai Bunchô

Japanese painter

Ippitsusai Bunchō was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, best known for his yakusha-e actor prints in narrow hosoban dimensions. Bunchō and Katsukawa Shunshō are credited with having developed kabuki actor portraiture focuses on producing likenesses of the subjects, rather than stereotyped faces.

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