Xi chuan song more mo (xi chuan song mo, き た が わ う た ま ろ), the original name of beichuan (き た が わ), was born in Japan bao three years (in 1753), died in the Japanese culture for three years (in 1806), 53 years old. Ukiyoshi painter of the edo period, Japan. He is also known as the three masters of ukiyo-e painting, together with hokusai and hiroshi ando. He is also the first popular Japanese woodblock painter in Europe. It is famous for depicting women engaged in daily life or entertainment as well as busts of women. Famous have "woman physiognosy ten body" and "brothel beauty". He also studied nature and published an illustrated book, wormbook (1788). 1804 he was jailed for 50 days for provoking the government with a woodcut of the military ruler's concubines.

Kitagawa created many excellent ukiyo-e paintings of beauty in his lifetime. The work pursues the beauty conforming to the ideal and social fashion, is full of sympathy for kabuki and even prostitutes at the bottom of society, and is good at depicting the psychological activities of the characters. His style of painting has been influenced by modern times, and his followers are numerous. In 1804, he was sentenced to handcuffs because he offended the shogunate by drawing "taige luodong five wives tour view". Kitagawa is a famous ukiyoshi painter who specializes in painting women and folk customs. He, hokusai and hiroshi atsushi of the 19th century were honored as the "three masters of ukiyo-e" by Japanese scholars. His outstanding achievement was that he created a new style of close-ups of large faces, known as "big head painting". This is a way of drawing a person's face in a larger way that focuses on the characterization of the person. The long face shape, thin eyes like a thread and tall figure are a unique style of igawa's characters. This style and his bright colors constitute an important feature of his painting art.