Bunchô Ippitsusai

1 works by Bunchô Ippitsusai (Japanese, 1725–1794) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.

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.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

At a glance

Most of Bunchô Ippitsusai's work on the site falls under Illustration (1).

By movement, it's catalogued as Expressionism (1).

Culture: Japanese (1).

By orientation: 1 portrait.

Other Japanese artists of the period

If you like this artist, these contemporaries are catalogued too:

• Katsushika Hokusai — 1,000 artworks
• Kitagawa Utamaro — 649 artworks
• Isoda Koryūsai — 74 artworks
• Katsukawa Shunshō — 55 artworks
• Itō Jakuchū — 47 artworks
• Tani Bunchō — 43 artworks
• Torii Kiyomitsu — 39 artworks
• Utagawa Toyoharu — 30 artworks

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