Japan: Girls in dancing dress from the series, 'Popular Entertainment at the Niwaka Festival' ('Seiro Niwaka Zensei Asobi'). Katsukawa Shunsho, c. 1790

Katsukawa Shunshō (勝川 春章, 1726 - January 19, 1792) was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshō studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Chōshun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists. Shunshō is most well known for introducing a new form of yakusha-e, prints depicting Kabuki actors. However, his bijinga (images of beautiful women) paintings, while less famous, are said by some scholars to be "the best in the second half of the [18th] century".

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