page_title: Kawamata Tsunemasa
hierarchical_section_title: Kawamata Tsunemasa
caption_attribution_description: English: The Four Sleepers Japan by Kawamata Tsunemasa, c. 1745. Ink, color and gold pigment on paper. Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
context_page_description: Kawamata Tsunemasa was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Kawamata school of art, active from the Genbun to perhaps the Meiwa eras. He was a disciple of the school's founder, Kawamata Tsuneyuki.
  Something more than fifty paintings identified as his survive. Like many early ukiyo-e artists, Tsunemasa and the Kawamata school specialized in painting rather than designing woodblock prints. He worked primarily on bijin-ga portraits of female beauties. His later painters appear to bear the influence of Suzuki Harunobu in the style in which he depicts women. He produced many mitate-e works that allude to classical themes.
  Tsunemasa's death date is unknown. A Kawamata Tsunetatsu, of whom little is known, produced works in Tsunemasa's style during Tsunemasa's late period, and thus is presumed to have been a successor.
context_section_description: Kawamata Tsunemasa (川又 常正, birth and death dates unknown) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Kawamata school of art,  active from the Genbun (1736–41) to perhaps the Meiwa (1764–72) eras.  He was a disciple of the school's founder, Kawamata Tsuneyuki.
  Something more than fifty paintings identified as his survive. Like many early ukiyo-e artists, Tsunemasa and the Kawamata school specialized in painting (nikuhitsu-ga) rather than designing woodblock prints.  He worked primarily on bijin-ga portraits of female beauties.  His later painters appear to bear the influence of Suzuki Harunobu in the style in which he depicts women.  He produced many mitate-e works that allude to classical themes.
  Tsunemasa's death date is unknown.  A Kawamata Tsunetatsu (川又 常辰), of whom little is known, produced works in Tsunemasa's style during Tsunemasa's late period, and thus is presumed to have been a successor.
caption: The Four Sleepers Japan, c. 1745
exif: {}