Shunman

Kubo Shunman (Japanese: 窪 俊満; 1757 – 26 October 1820) was a Japanese artist and writer. Early in his career he published as a novelist under the name Nandaka Shiran and as a poet under Hitofushi Chitsue.

Shunman was orphaned while young. He studied under the ukiyo-e artist Kitao Shigemasa and the poet Katori Nahiko.^[1]

His earliest works dates to 1774: a votive plaque copied from Nahiko. His works include include some ukiyo-e prints, book illustrations, paintings, illustrated novels, and poetry. He was the most prolific producer of paintings in the Kitao school; more than 70 of his paintings survive.^[1]

He was a member of the poets' clubs Bakuro-ren and Rokujuen, and became head of Bakuro-ren. He stopped making designing commercial prints in 1790 to focus on deluxe commissioned prints, and provided poetry for the prints of Hokusai, Utamaro, and Eishi.^[1]

• Prints by Shunman
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References

1. Marks 2012, p. 84.

Works cited

• Marks, Andreas (2012). Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680–1900. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0599-7.

External links

• Media related to Kubo Shunman at Wikimedia Commons