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Utagawa Kunisada Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Utagawa Kunisada Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 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. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunisada

Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1921

Banquet of the Next Full Moon at the Chrysanthemum Festival, from the series The Twelve Months (Chōyō nochi no tsuki no en, Jūni tsuki no uchi)

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Banquet of the Next Full Moon at the Chrysanthemum Festival, from the series The Twelve Months (Chōyō nochi no tsuki no en, Jūni tsuki no uchi)
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1999

Seishu Awabi-tori no Zu

Asian Art / The Met

   title: Seishu Awabi-tori no Zu
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1917

Album of Forty-eight Actor Prints

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Album of Forty-eight Actor Prints
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Evening Snow (Bo-setsu), from the series, "Eight Figural Views" (Sugata Hakkei)

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Evening Snow (Bo-setsu), from the series, "Eight Figural Views" (Sugata Hakkei)
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1936

Rain of the Fifth Month (Samidare)

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Rain of the Fifth Month (Samidare)
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1939

Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Konoshita Tokichi, Nakamura Daikichi as His Wife, and Iwai Hanshiro V as Masago in the Play Yakko Yakko Edo no Hanayari

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Konoshita Tokichi, Nakamura Daikichi as His Wife, and Iwai Hanshiro V as Masago in the Play Yakko Yakko Edo no Hanayari
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1919

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII (1791–1859) in the Role of Konoshita Tokichi from the Scene "Mountain Gate" in the Play Yakko Yakko Edo Hanayari

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