Toriyama Sekien
Katsukawa Shunshō introduced the ' "large-headed picture" in the 1760s; he and other members of the Katsukawa school such as Shunkō popularized the form for ' actor prints, as well as the dusting of mica in the backgrounds to produce a glittering effect. Kiyonaga was the pre-eminent portraitist of beauties in the 1780s, and the tall, graceful beauties in his work had a great influence on Kitagawa Utamaro (–1806), who was to succeed him in fame. Utamaro studied under Toriyama Sekien (1712–1788), who had trained in the Kanō school of painting. Around 1782, Utamaro came to work for the publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō.