query: occupation katsukawa shunsen
supports: Katsukawa Shunk I (1743  1 December 1812) was a Japanese artist who designed ukiyo-e-style woodblock prints and paintings in Edo (modern Tokyo). He was a student of Katsukawa Shunsh, and is generally credited with designing the first large-head actor portraits (kubi-e). As his teacher 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. 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 religion. 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 livesfrom meals to their manner of dressare dictated by strict tradition. 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; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica. The term "ukiyo-e" translates as "picture[s] of the floating world". 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 performer 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 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 geisha, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, samurai, "chnin" and prostitutes. Katsukawa Shunsh (1726  19 January 1793) was a Japanese painter 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". 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 artist Tsutsumi Trin III. In 1806 or 1807 , Shunsen became a student 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 .
candidates: actor artist geisha painter performer religion student travel
answer: painter