Artist: Natori Shunsen
Colors: 90
Price: 700 Euro
Dimensions: 15.0 * 22.5 cm
c.1931 The actor ONOE BAICO depicted in bust as the beautiful courtesan ABURAYA OKON.
Natori Shunsen (1886-1960) Japanese Printmaker was the last ukiyo-e artist making actor portraits in traditional manner and one of the major artists of the Shin Hanga movement. His life took a most tragic end. In 1960 the artist and his wife committed suicide at the grave of their deceased daughter.
Natori Shunsen was born in Tokyo under the given name of Yoshinosuke. He studied traditional Japanese painting - Nihonga - as a student of Kubota Beisen and at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. After finishing his art training, he could get an employment at a Tokyo newspaper as an illustrator.
