 Shunshō personally focused on "ōkubi-e" headshot actor portraits in his prints, and "bijin" in his paintings.Other artists of the school included Shunchō, Shun'ei, and Hokusai (as Katsukawa Shunrō).The Katsukawa school was created as the result of political oppression of the Kanō school of painting by the Tokugawa shogunate around 1750.