Toyokuni iii utagawa kunisada biography

  • Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist.
  • Kunisada Utagawa (1786 – January 12, 1865) was an extraordinarily prolific and celebrated designer in the field of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints).
  • Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – January 12, 1865) was the most popular, prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.

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    TOYOKUNI III

    Utagawa, (Tsunoda) Kunisada (1786-1865) was an ukiyo-e–style woodblock print artist born in 1786 in the Honjo district of Edo. At age fourteen, Kunisada became a student of Utagawa Toyokuni inom in the prestigious Utagawa School. Over the next seven years, Kunisada studied Utagawa-style painting techniques and produced a variety of prints depicting kabuki actors, bijin-ga, shunga (erotica), samurai warriors, sumo wrestlers, and historical battles. With prodigious talent, Kunisada became an overnight sensation. 

    After publishing an illustrated book of actor print in 1808, his popularity spread like wildfire throughout the capital. In less than a decade, he had become one of the most popular and commercially successful ukiyo-e artists in Edo. Kunisada continued to paint, publish, and illustrate various works until the death of his mentor in 1825 prompted him to take over as head of the Utagawa School. In 1828, he began collaborating with artist Utagawa H

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    Kunisada

    Japanese woodblock print artist (1786–1865)

    In this Japanese name, the surname fryst vatten Utagawa.

    Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

    Evaluation of Kunisada in art history

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    At the end of the Edo period (1603–1867), Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the three best representatives of the Japanese color woodcut in Edo (capital city of Japan, now Tokyo). However, among European and American collectors of Japanese prints, beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century, all three of these artists were actually regarded as rather inferior to the greats of classical ukiyo-e, and therefo

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    Utagawa Kunisada

    Utagawa Kunisada (Japonca: 歌川 国貞; 1786-12 Ocak 1865) veya Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), Edo döneminde yaşamış Japonukiyo-e sanatçısıydı. 19. yüzyıl Japonya'sında ukiyo-e tahta baskıların en popüler, üretken ve ticari olarak başarılı tasarımcısı olarak kabul edilir. Kendi zamanında, itibarı çağdaşları Hokusai, Hiroshige ve Kuniyoshi'ninkinden çok daha fazlaydı.

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    • Sebastian Izzard, Kunisada's World (Japan Society, New York, 1993)
    • Lars Berglund, Recapturing Utagawa Kunisada: 24 Prints from the Anders Rikardson Collection (p. 59ff, Vol 25, Issue 1, January–February 1995, Arts of Asia, Hong Kong)
    • Jan van Doesburg, What about Kunisada? (Huys den Esch, Dodewaard, 1990)
    • Shigeru Shindo, (translated Yoko Moizumi, E. M. Carmichael), Kunisada: The Kabuki Actor Portraits (Graphic-Sha, Tokyo, 1993)
    • Ellis Tinios, Mirror of the Stage: The Actor Prints of Kunisada (Universi
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