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.