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歌川国貞 Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) Asian antique meeting point Original Ukiyo-e woodblock jog / Oiran playing Samisen OW143
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歌川国貞 Utagawa Kunisada / 歌川豊国 Utagawa Toyokuni Ⅲ (1786-1865)
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Dimensions: 10.2" x 14.8" / 25.9cm x 37.6cm
Material: Paper
Technique: Woodblock print
Weight: 10g
Condition
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The signature list is not complet, I´m sure I´ll find some more new signatures and variants of known signatures in the future. So the site has to be continued.
For a first step I had taken the transcription and translation for most of Kunisada´s signatures from: Jan van Doesburg, "What about Kunisada?", Dodewaard (NL), 1990. Other informations were from Sebastian Izzard, "Kunisada´s World", Japan Society, 1993.
Many thanks to Andrew Kowalczuk from whom I got new signature variations and who spent lot of time with the deciphering, new transcription and new translation of earlier known signatures. And also many thanks to Yasu Takano, Andreas Marks, Mariko Saiko, Wolfgang Hoehn, Bernd Jesse who added some precious informations for the writing and reading of some Japanese characters.
Thanks to Errol Lind for the new variants in 2014 and to Robert Martin for a new seal in 2015!
Kunisada was born as TsunodaShōgorō IX (角田庄五朗), called TsunodaShōzō (角田庄蔵) in the Honjo district of Edo in the year 1786 [Andreas Marks added the following information: >>The two characters of the family name 角田 can also be read differently. Izzard 1993,
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Kuniyoshi and Kunisada: When great minds think a little differently
When Japan opened up to the Western world in the 19th century, popular artistic tastes were dominated by two great woodblock print artists, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) and Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1864). Contemporaries, keen rivals and both members of the Utagawa School, the pair had the inventiveness and flexibility to keep abreast of changing tastes as well as the whims of the censors.
The exhibition "Kuniyoshi and Kunisada" at The Bunkamura Museum of Art (it will later travel to Kobe and Nagoya) is the first to explicitly compare the two artists, who both feature prominently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from which the show is sourced.
The Bostonian connection mainly derives from Dr. William Bigelow, a wealthy physician who spent seven years in Japan in the 1880s. He seems to have spent most of his time collecting, as he returned to Boston with more than 9,000 works by Kunisada and over 3,000 by Kuniyoshi.