Nakamura Shūkō
Nakamura Shūkō 中村秋香 (active c. 1894-1904)
BIOGRAPHY
No information is available on this artist who created senso-e (war prints) for both the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). He has also been named as Nakamura Akika by Nicholas Chakin.1 The artist is likely not Tomita Shūkō the painter and illustrator active in the same period although Merritt writes that Tomita Shukō "drew many prints for the Sino-Japanese War."2
1 The Sino-Japanese War, Nathan Chaikin, self-published, 1983. Chaikin may have confused this artist with the scholar and poet Nakamura Akika 中村秋香 (1841-1910).2 Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture, Helen Merritt and Nanako Yamada, University of Hawaii Press, 2000, p.219-220.
Sample Signatures and Seals Attributed to Nagashima Shungyō
last revision: 11/18/2023
Prints in Collection
[BELOW PRINTS GIFTED TO THE JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON]
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Illustration of the Japanese Second Army Fierce Battle at Jinzhou Castle, 1894
IHL Cat. #306
Illustration of the Genzan Soldiers Marching on Pyongyang and the Fierce Battle Between the Japanese and Chinese Troops, 1894
IHL Cat. #349