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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - Rainy Scene on a Bridge (Ame no To no Sue)

Rainy Scene on a Bridge (Ame no To no Sue) (ca. 1849–1853)

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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Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.7

Eight Figural Views (Sugata Hakkei) Pl.7 (1850)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Actors as Ebisu, Fukurokuju, Benkei, Fox and Hunter in the Style of Ōtsu-e

Actors as Ebisu, Fukurokuju, Benkei, Fox and Hunter in the Style of Ōtsu-e (circa 1850)

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

Fashionable Genji at Suma (1853)

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)
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)
Actor Iwai Hanshiro in the Role of Oito

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

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Actor Onoe Tamizo in the Role of Tenjuku Tokubei

The Actor Onoe Tamizo in the Role of Tenjuku Tokubei (ca. 1813–1823)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Chi Brigade, Tenth Group, Theater District in Saruwaka; Actor Ichikawa Ebizô V as the Old Woman of the Lonely House

Chi Brigade, Tenth Group, Theater District in Saruwaka; Actor Ichikawa Ebizô V as the Old Woman of the Lonely House (1863)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Kiyomizurō Restaurant; The Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Kiyomizu Seigen

The Kiyomizurō Restaurant; The Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII as Kiyomizu Seigen (1852)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Woman Diver Combing her Hair

Woman Diver Combing her Hair (1786-1864)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Geisha Ohisa and Umekichi from Ōiso as Lion Dancers

Geisha Ohisa and Umekichi from Ōiso as Lion Dancers

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Osaka Actor Nakamura Shikan in the Role of the Daimyō Fujiwara no Tokihira Kyō

Osaka Actor Nakamura Shikan in the Role of the Daimyō Fujiwara no Tokihira Kyō (1833)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Sixth Lunar Month

The Sixth Lunar Month (1854)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
A Scene from the Play Hana no hoka ni waka no kyokuzuki

A Scene from the Play Hana no hoka ni waka no kyokuzuki (1846)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Seventh Month

The Seventh Month (circa 1830s)

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