Natori Shunsen

He was born Natori Yoshinosuke, the fifth son of a silk merchant, in Yamanashi Prefecture. His family settled in Tokyo shortly after his birth, where he remained until his death in 1960. From the age of eleven he studied with traditional Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter Kubota Beisen, and was given his artist's name "Shunsen". He subsequently studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. His works are held in several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of New Zealand, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Harvard Art Museums, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, and the Brooklyn Museum. ==Gallery==

MET DP143371.jpg|Onoe Kikugorō VI as Hayano Kampei, 1929 Ichikawa Sadanji in de rol van Narukami 36 portretten van acteurs in verschillende rollen (serietitel), RP-P-2003-144.jpg|Ichikawa Sadanji II as Narukami, 1926 Natori Shunsen-Nakamura Kichiemon as Mitsuhide.jpg|Nakamura Kichiemon I as Akechi Mitsuhide, 1926 ==References==