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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - Standing Beauty with Butterfly Pattern Kimono

Standing Beauty with Butterfly Pattern Kimono (circa 1842-1843)

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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The Actor Nakamura Fukusuke I as Hanaregoma no Chōkichi in the Play ‘Futatsu chōchō kuruwa nikki’ (1854)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Act VIII; Konami’s Bridal Procession.

Act VIII; Konami’s Bridal Procession. (circa 1835)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Muraogi, from the series The False Murasaki’s Rustic Genji (Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji)

Muraogi, from the series The False Murasaki’s Rustic Genji (Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji) (1830s)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Act IX; Oishi Disguises Yuranosuke as a Komusō (Flute-Playing Monk); Oishi Attacks Honzō for Having Brought about Enya’s Demise

Act IX; Oishi Disguises Yuranosuke as a Komusō (Flute-Playing Monk); Oishi Attacks Honzō for Having Brought about Enya’s Demise (circa 1835)

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)
Toneri Umeōmaru and Toneri Sakuramaru from the play Sugawara Denjū Tenarai Kagami

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

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Number 3 (San) for the Play Sanryaku no maki; Actor as Kiichi Hōgan

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

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Actors in the Roles of Shimada Shigesaburō, Kugyō ama jitsuwa Takao and Sakingo Yorikane under Cherry Blossoms

Actors in the Roles of Shimada Shigesaburō, Kugyō ama jitsuwa Takao and Sakingo Yorikane under Cherry Blossoms (circa 1850)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro in a Plaid Costume

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro in a Plaid Costume (ca. 1850)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Scene One from the Play Chūshingura; Kō no Moronao and Kaoyo Gozen

Scene One from the Play Chūshingura; Kō no Moronao and Kaoyo Gozen (1850)

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786 – 1865)
Woman Clasping Baby

Woman Clasping Baby (ca. 1813–1833)

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

Fujieda (1854)

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

White (circa 1847-1852)

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

The Sixth Lunar Month (1854)

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

Snow (1855)

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