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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - Ni Brigade, First Group; Ryōgoku Bridge; Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Yokoyama no Yosaburō

Ni Brigade, First Group; Ryōgoku Bridge; Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Yokoyama no Yosaburō (1863)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
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The Artist died in 1865 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
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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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Yui (1854)

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Yui (circa 1838)

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The Number 3 (San) for the Play Sanryaku no maki; Actor as Kiichi Hōgan (1856)

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The Poet Hitomaro on the Shore at Akashi Bay (circa 1830)

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The Restaurant Mankyū; Actor Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Hige no Ikyū (1852)

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

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The Seventh Month (circa 1830s)

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The Sixth Lunar Month (1854)

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The Syllable To for Long-tailed Rooster (Tōtenkō); Actors Ichikawa Ebizô V as Toshibei and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Sukune Tarō (1856)

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The Uota Restaurant; (Actor Ichikawa Ebizō V as) Tarōzaemon (1853)

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Thirteen Brigade, North Group; Banba; The Actor Sawamura Tanosuke III as the Apprentice Chōkichi (1861)

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Toneri Umeōmaru and Toneri Sakuramaru from the play Sugawara Denjū Tenarai Kagami (mid-19th century)

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View from the Upper Floor of the Aoyagi Restaurant; Ono no Michikaze (1852)

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View of Kanbara (circa 1833)

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Viewing Plum Blossoms (1858)

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Visiting the Peony Garden (circa 1847-1852)

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Watōnai Capturing a Tiger (circa 1830s)

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White (circa 1847-1852)

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Farm near Duivendrecht (c. 1916)

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