Utagawa Kunisada

Japanese woodblock print artist

Utagawa Kunisada ((歌川国貞) (1786-1865), also known as
Utagawa Toyokuni III ((三代歌川豊国) was the most popular and successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th century Japan.

Ukiyo-e "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries.

Musha-e (warrior prints) clearly have not been the main field of Kunisada artistic efforts and only a very few are published.

Utagawa Kunisada was student of Utagawa school, founded by Toyoharu. The Utagawa school was a group of Japanese woodblock print artists and the school become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century.

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