Miyagawa Isshō

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox artist Template:Family name hatnote Miyagawa Isshō (, 1689 – 20 January 1780) was a Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style, primarily depicting kabuki actors, geisha, sumo wrestlers, and other elements of everyday urban culture. He used several other names: Fujiwara Andō (), Kohensai () and others; his common name was Kiheiji ().Template:Sfn

The majority of Isshō's works that survive come from the Kyōhō era (1716–1736). He was a pupil of Miyagawa Chōshun (1682–1752),Template:Sfn who, in turn, was influenced by the works of Hishikawa Moronobu. Like many ukiyo-e artists, Isshō also produced a number of shunga, paintings of erotic scenes.

Isshō was banished from Edo in 1751, along with his master Chōshun, to the island of Niijima off the Izu Peninsula for a year.Template:Sfn This came after a dispute arose over the payment for a painting commission in Nikkō. A Kanō school artist commissioned Chōshun to paint some of the walls of the Nikkō Tōshō-gū but refused or was unable to pay. In the ensuing confrontation, the Kanō artist and two others were killed by Isshō and Chōshun's son.Template:Sfn Isshō was never pardoned and died on 20 January 1780.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Selected works

• Miyagawa Isshō painting. Untitled.
  Miyagawa Isshō painting. Untitled.
• From the Spring Pastimes series.
  From the Spring Pastimes series.
• From the Spring Pastimes series.
  From the Spring Pastimes series.

See also

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