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Utagawa Toyokuni
Utagawa Toyokuni
Eijudo Hibino (Publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi) at Seventy-one (Nanaju-ichi o Eijudo Hibino)
Utagawa Toyokuni
Actors Segawa Kikunojo V as Okuni Gozen (R) Nakamura Shikan I as Sotan (C) and Bando Mitsugoro III as Matabei (L)
Utagawa Toyokuni
The First Month (Shogatsu no zu): Actor Bando Mitsugoro III from the series The Five Festivals with Popular Actors in Private Life (Furyu yakusha jigao gosekku)
Utagawa Toyokuni
Matsukaze from the series The Tale of Genji (Genji)
Utagawa Toyokuni
Actors Ichikawa Hakuen I as Fujiwara Suketsune and Ichikawa Omezo I as Goro Tokimune
Utagawa Toyokuni
Actor Iwai Hanshiro V as Kasane cut from one sheet of an untitled series showing actors in six roles each
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Women Performing Okina Senzai and Sanbaso
Utagawa Toyokuni
Hamamuraya (Actor Segawa Kikunojo III as the Shirabyoshi Dancer Hisakata) from the series Portraits of Actors on Stage (Yakusha butai no sugata-e)
Utagawa Toyokuni
Plum-Blossom Viewing Party Imitating a Boating Party
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Act V (Godanme) from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers a Primer (Kanadehon Chushingura)
The first Utagawa Toyokuni (Shodai Utagawa and well, Meiwa 6 <1769> --Bunsei 8 January 7
Born as the son of Gorobei Kurahashi, a wood carving puppeteer who lives in Mishima-cho in front of Edo Shiba Shinmei. After moving from Mishima Town to Yoshicho and Horie Town, he lived in Kamimaki Town. He studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the founder of the Utagawa school when he was a child, and was called Utagawa Toyokuni. In the 6th year of Tenmei (1786), he published illustrations of the virgin works "Men and Women of the New Year" and "Kyoka Taro Crowner". (Kuharaku no Motojime) ”, he started his painting business in earnest, and since then he has been drawing until his last year, the 7th year of Bunsei. The Tenmei period was a study period, but from around the 2nd and 3rd years of Kansei (1790-1791), Izumiya Ichibei released a bijin-ga, gradually escaping the Toyoharu style, incorporating the Kiyonaga style and the Utamaro style, and making it unique. I was looking for a style of.