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Utagawa Kunisada

1786–1865 · Japan

Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. Wikipedia

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Works

• “Memorial Portrait of Iwai Hanshirō VI”, 1836 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō”, 1824 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Ōmezō I”, 1845 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō: Station #49: Sakanoshita”, 1830s — Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
• “Kabuki actor as a geisha playing a stringed instrument” — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Last Snow of the Year at Toeizan”, 1830 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Portrait of Oribe Yasubei Takeiyasu”, 1850 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Star, from the series "Sun, Moon, and Stars" ("Nichi-Getsu-Hoshi No Uchi")”, 1830 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Title Page and Illustration from a Book Entitled Shira nui (White Embroidery), by Shuen, Chapter 19” — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Tōsei musume 36 kasen no uchi Yamafuki”
• “Tōsei musume 36 kasen no uchi Fuchi”
• “Tōsei musume 36 kasen no uchi Kakitsubata”
• “Tōsei musume 36 kasen no uchi Sakura”
• “Tōsei musume 36 kasen no uchi Ume”
• “Kabuki Actors”, 1852 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “The Kabuki Actors Nakamura Shikan as the Boatman Chokichi and Iwai”, 1820 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Title Page and Illustration from a Book by Tamenaga, Shunsui, Chapter 23” — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Title Page and Illustration from a Book Entitled Atsugesho mannen Shimada” — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “The Kabuki Actor Bando Mitsugoro as Honcho Tsunagoro”, 1820 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Kazusa Shichibei”, 1854 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Kyuzo as Hakamaiwa No Yasusuke”, 1820 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “The Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Kasugaya Tokijuro and Bando”, 1851 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “The Kabuki Actors Ichikawa Ebijuro as Katsuma Takubei, Ichikawa Ichizo”, 1863 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “The Poet Kahinomoto No Hitomaro”, 1848 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Title Page of a Book Entitled Shimpen Kinbeibai, by Kyokutei, Bakin” — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Two Kabuki actors, one in female role” — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Young Woman With a Tray of Chrysanthemums, from 100 Poems by 100 Poets”, 1845 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “A Kabuki Actor as the Imposter Tagotohime”, 1852 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “A standing Bijin”, 1820 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Kabuki Actor (possibly Kikugoro III) as Yamagawaya Gonroku, and a Child Actor as Monzai Wakadayu”, 1852 — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Kawazu Saburo Sukeyasu wrestling Matano Goro Kagehisa”
• “Kawazu Saburo Sukeyasu wrestling Matano Goro Kagehisa - center”
• “Kawazu Saburo Sukeyasu wrestling Matano Goro Kagehisa - left”
• “Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui, Narumi.”, 1845 — Walters Art Museum
• “Tōkaidō gojūsan tsui, Kanagawa, Kanagawa no eki Urashima zuka” — Walters Art Museum
• “Woodcut”
• “Panel from a triptych of Kabuki actors enjoying a summer evening in Kyoto” — Vanderbilt Museum of Art
• “Boy's Festival” — Minneapolis Institute of Art