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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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Woman with a Hand Mirror from the series The Six Tama Rivers of the Floating World (c. early 1830s)

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Abalone Divers off the Coast of Ise (1830s)

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Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kan Shojo in the Mt. Tenpai Scene, from the series Famous Kabuki Plays

Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kan Shojo in the Mt. Tenpai Scene, from the series Famous Kabuki Plays (1814)

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Viewing Plum Blossoms (1858)

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The Futabatei Restaurant; Actor Ichikawa Shinsha I as Aoi no mae

The Futabatei Restaurant; Actor Ichikawa Shinsha I as Aoi no mae (1853)

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Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.8

Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.8 (1850)

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Two Women; Youth and Age (ca. 1857)

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Actor Iwai Hanshiro in the Role of Oito (ca. 1830)

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Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as I no Hayata (1820)

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Ofuji of Ōmiya and her Servant Tsuruya Denzō (1856)

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Portrait (1786–1865)

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Picture of a Crowded Theater Hosting Performance of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami

Picture of a Crowded Theater Hosting Performance of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (1859)

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Famous Places in the Eastern Capital; The Year-end Fair at Asakusa

Famous Places in the Eastern Capital; The Year-end Fair at Asakusa (1854)

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