Kawamata Tsunemasa

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.

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.

Couple Reading Love Letter
The Four Sleepers Japan , c. 1745