Utagawa Kunisada
Sign in to saveAlso known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, Kunisada, Kôchôrô Toyokuni, Toyokuni Utagawa, Sanjin, Gototei, Ichiyôsai Toyokuni, Bukiyō Matahei
thumb|Woodblock print portrait of Utagawa Kunisada, at the age of 80 years, dated January 1865. This memorial portrait was designed by his principal student, Kunisada II, and is one of the few known images of Kunisada.Utagawa Kunisada (; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (, ), 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. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.
OverviewAI-generated
Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865) was a Japanese illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and printmaker. Born and deceased in Edo, he was a male member of the Utagawa school. His professional focus included portrait work, erotic art, and shunga. He studied under Utagawa Toyokuni I and taught students including Utagawa Kunimasu and Kuniteru I.
His works are held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Museo del Prado, the Art Museum of Estonia, and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. He wrote and spoke Japanese, and his name is recorded in native script as 歌川国貞 and in kana as うたがわ くにさだ.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Europeana Sparql. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Edo
- Place of death
- Edo
- Occupation
- graphic artist
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Field of work
- shunga
- Genre
- portrait
- Movement
- Utagawa school
- Image
- Kunisada shini e.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Utagawa Kunisada
- date of birth
- 1786-01-01
- date of death
- 1865-01-12
- Commons Creator page
- Utagawa Kunisada (I)
- name in native language
- 歌川国貞
- different from
- Utagawa Kunisada III
- name in kana
- うたがわ くにさだ
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Utagawa Kunisada, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Evaluation of Kunisada in art history
- Biography
- Artistic activity
- Reception and legacy
- Collections
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Woodblock print portrait of Utagawa Kunisada, at the age of 80 years, dated January 1865. This memorial portrait was designed by his principal student, Kunisada II, and is one of the few known images of Kunisada.Utagawa Kunisada (; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (, ), 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. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.
==Evaluation of Kunisada in art history== 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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Utagawa Kunisada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.