occupation katsukawa shunsen
The ukiyo - e genre of art flourished in Japan from the 17th through 19th centuries . Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties ; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers ; scenes from history and folk tales ; ___MASK65___ scenes and landscapes ; flora and fauna ; and erotica . The term " ukiyo - e " translates as " picture [ s ] of the floating world ". Katsukawa Shunk I ( 1743  1 December 1812 ) was a Japanese ___MASK89___ who designed ukiyo - e - style woodblock prints and paintings in Edo ( modern Tokyo ). He was a ___MASK6___ of Katsukawa Shunsh , and is generally credited with designing the first large - head ___MASK61___ portraits ( kubi - e ). As his ___MASK4___ did , Shunk used a jar - shaped seal and was known as (" little jar "). At 45 , the right - handed Shunk became partially paralyzed and ceased designing prints , although he continued producing paintings with his left hand . Katsukawa Shunsh ( 1726  19 January 1793 ) was a Japanese ___MASK88___ and printmaker in the " ukiyo - e " style , and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school . Shunsh studied under Miyagawa Shunsui , son and student of Miyagawa Chshun , both equally famous and talented ukiyo - e artists . Shunsh is most well known for introducing a new form of " yakusha - e ", prints depicting Kabuki actors . However , his " bijin - ga " ( images of beautiful women ) paintings , while less famous , are said by some scholars to be " the best in the second half of the < nowiki >[ 18th ]</ nowiki > century ". The individual kanji , from left to right , mean " sing ", " dance ", and " skill ". Kabuki is therefore sometimes translated as " the art of singing and dancing ". These are , however , " ateji " characters which do not reflect actual etymology . The kanji of ' skill ' generally refers to a ___MASK50___ in kabuki theatre . Since the word " kabuki " is believed to derive from the verb " kabuku ", meaning " to lean " or " to be out of the ordinary ", " kabuki " can be interpreted as " avant - garde " or " bizarre " theatre . The expression " kabukimono " referred originally to those who were bizarrely dressed and swaggered on a street . The sport originated in Japan , the only country where it is practiced professionally . It is generally considered a " gendai bud " ( a modern Japanese martial art ), but this definition is misleading , as the sport has a history spanning many centuries . Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo , and even today the sport includes many ritual elements , such as the use of salt purification , from the days when sumo was used in the Shinto ___MASK7___ . Life as a wrestler is highly regimented , with rules regulated by the Japan Sumo Association . Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in communal sumo training stables , known in Japanese as " heya ", where all aspects of their daily lives  from meals to their manner of dress  are dictated by strict tradition . Katsukawa Shunsen (   ) , who is also known as Shunk II , was a designer of books and ukiyo - e style Japanese woodblock prints . He was born in 1762 and designed prints from about 1805 to about 1821 . He initially studied with the Rimpa school ___MASK89___ Tsutsumi Trin III . In 1806 or 1807 , Shunsen became a ___MASK6___ of Katsukawa Shun ' ei , and changed his name from `` Kojimachi Shunsen '' to `` Katsukawa Shunsen '' . In 1820 he succeeded Katsukawa Shunk I , becoming Katsukawa Shunk II . In the late 1820s , he ceased producing woodblock prints and devoted himself to painting ceramics . He died about 1830 . Shunsen is best known for his genre scenes , landscapes , and prints of beautiful women . The famous Japanese woodblock prints known as " ukiyo - e ", or " pictures of the Floating World ", had their origins in these districts and often depicted scenes of the Floating World itself such as ___MASK13___ , kabuki actors , sumo wrestlers , ___MASK20___ , " chnin " and prostitutes .