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KUNISADA UTAGAWA 歌川 国貞 (TOYOKUNI III 三代 歌川 豊国) (1786–1864)
Utagawa Kunisada (also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, 1786 – 1865) was the most popular, the most productive and the most commercially successful designer of Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) in the 19th century. His reputation outbid his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi, by far. Kunisada was always setting the trends by following the most recent influences. He was always aware of the mainstream tastes.
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About the year 1800, Kunisada joined the Utagawa school (founded by Utagawa Toyoharu) and became a student of Utagawa Toyokuni I. He was then given the official artist name KUNI-sada, which was inspired by the first character from the second part of the name Toyo-KUNI.
Succeeding his master, Kunisada's main subject was kabuki actor prints. Additionally, he was also highly active in bijin-ga(pictures of beautiful women). From 1820 to 1860 he was the most demanded artist to create portraits of sumo wrestlers. From 1835 to 1850, Kunisada was the only ukiyo-e artist who illustrated The Tale of Genji. In 1844, he finally adopted the name of his master Toyokuni I. Therefore, he used the signature Kunisada becoming Toyokuni III.
After this short period, he signe
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Making Waves
Japanese American Photography, 1920–1940
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Akira Furukawa • K. Furukawa • Tomishia Furuya • Harry Hayashida • Ichiro Itani • Riso Itano • Shinsaku Izumi • Shigemi Izuo • Morinosuke Kamikihara • Taizo Kato • Seizo K. Katsu • Hisao E. Kimura • Hiromu Kira • Dr. Kyo Koike • Kichiji Kojimoto • Asahachi Kono • F.A. Kunishige • Kusutora Matsuki • Toraji Mayeda • Toyo Miyatake • Yukio Morinaga • Riichi Morita • Takuji Mukai • S. Nakagawa • Kentaro Nakamura • T. Nohira • Hideo Onishi • Kumezu Ota • J.T. Sata • F.Y. Sato • H.K. Shigeta • Midori Shimoda • Kaye Shimojima • M. Shimotsusa • T.K. Shindo • Soichi Sunami • Dr. Henry Moriya Takahashi • K. Takahashi • I.K. Tanaka • Shigemi Uyeda
Biographies below from the exhibition catalog by Dennis Reed.
1890–1968
Hawai‘i
Furukawa worked in relative isolation in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, wher
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