 The painter Miyagawa Shunsui changed his surname to Katsukawa.One of his students, Katsukawa Shunshō, took his surname and abandoned the school's tradition of painting well-dressed beauties in favour of "yakusha-e" portraits of kabuki actors, a domain once dominated by the Torii school.This new focus revived the actor print, which had lost popularity after Suzuki Harunobu's portraits of beauties rose to prominence in the late 1760s.