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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - Iwai Hanshirō VIII as Geisha Ohisa, Kataoka Gadō II as Matsushiyama Jinzaburō, and Onoe Kikujirō II as Izumiya’s wife Oume in the Play Matsuichō tsurukame Soga

Iwai Hanshirō VIII as Geisha Ohisa, Kataoka Gadō II as Matsushiyama Jinzaburō, and Onoe Kikujirō II as Izumiya’s wife Oume in the Play Matsuichō tsurukame Soga (1854)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国 Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was 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.

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 therefore as having contributed considerably to the downfall of their art. For this reason, some referred to their works as "decadent".

Beginning in the 1930s and 1970s, respectively, the works of Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi were submitted to a re-evaluation, and these two are now counted among the masters of their art. Thus, from Kunisada alone was withheld, for a long time, the acknowledgment which is due to him. With a few exceptions, such as actor portraits (yakusha-e) and portraits of beautiful women (bijin-ga), at the beginning of his career, and some series of large-size actor head-portraits near the end, it was thought that he had produced only inferior works. It was not until the early 1990s, with the appearance of Jan van Doesburg's overview of the artistic development of Kunisada, and Sebastian Izzard's extensive study of his work, that this picture began to change, with Kunisada more clearly revealed as one of the "giants" of the Japanese print that he was.

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An Actor with an Elaborate Robe

An Actor with an Elaborate Robe (ca. 1845)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Fujiwara no Tokihira and Toneri Matsuōmaru from the Play Sugawara Denjū Tenarai Kagami

Fujiwara no Tokihira and Toneri Matsuōmaru from the Play Sugawara Denjū Tenarai Kagami (mid-19th century)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Act X; Gihei, Proving His Loyalty, Defies the Rōnin to Move Him; Gihei Writing a Letter of Divorce before His Father-in-Law

Act X; Gihei, Proving His Loyalty, Defies the Rōnin to Move Him; Gihei Writing a Letter of Divorce before His Father-in-Law (circa 1835)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Actor in the role of Toriyama Akisaku in the Play Shiranui Monogatari

Actor in the role of Toriyama Akisaku in the Play Shiranui Monogatari (1859)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Ru Brigade, Tenth Group, Iriya; Actor Nakamura Bungorō II as Asagao Senbei

Ru Brigade, Tenth Group, Iriya; Actor Nakamura Bungorō II as Asagao Senbei (1863)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Actors in the Roles of Yoshida no Matsuwaka, Ōtomo Hitachinosuke, and Yakko Kajihira

Actors in the Roles of Yoshida no Matsuwaka, Ōtomo Hitachinosuke, and Yakko Kajihira (1854)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Fashionable Genji at Suma

Fashionable Genji at Suma (1853)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Act I; Enya and Lady Kaoyo Trying to Pacify Wakasanosuke and Moronao

Act I; Enya and Lady Kaoyo Trying to Pacify Wakasanosuke and Moronao (circa 1835)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Abalone Divers off the Coast of Ise

Abalone Divers off the Coast of Ise (1830s)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Kakuta Brigade, Extra (Bangai), Sekiya no sato; Actor Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Shirafuji

Kakuta Brigade, Extra (Bangai), Sekiya no sato; Actor Kawarazaki Gonjūrō I as Shirafuji (1863)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Act VI; Kampei Signing the Roll of the Forty-Seven Rōnin; Okaru, after Being Sold, is Taken by Palanquin to Kyoto Brothel

Act VI; Kampei Signing the Roll of the Forty-Seven Rōnin; Okaru, after Being Sold, is Taken by Palanquin to Kyoto Brothel (circa 1835)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Snow

Snow (1855)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Salve Vendor; Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Toraya Tōkichi

The Salve Vendor; Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Toraya Tōkichi (1852)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.3

Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.3 (1850)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Actor Ichikawa Ichizo in the Role of Masakiyo

The Actor Ichikawa Ichizo in the Role of Masakiyo (ca. 1813–1833)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
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