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Utagawa Kunisada

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Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, 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.

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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)

1854 · Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

Overall: 14 5/8 x 30 1/8in. (37.1 x 76.5cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Snowy Garden

1854 · Triptych of color woodblock prints, ink and color on paper

Sheet: 35.6 x 75 cm (14 x 29 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Beweegbare erotische prent

1850 · blind-stamped on paper

width: 124 cm, height: 85 cm

Rijksmuseum

Whispered intimacies between lovers awake in bed on nights for end

1849 · color woodcut on paper

width: 166 cm, height: 240 cm

Rijksmuseum

First Bonito of the Year

1844 · color woodblock print

35.3 x 24.2 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman with a Folding Fan and Hand Mirror, from the series Sensuous Young Women of Contemporary Times

1838 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e)

Image: 11 3/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.9 x 22.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

De erotische weg naar de hoofdstad

1835 · color woodcut on paper, copper powder

height: 89 cm, width: 121 cm

Rijksmuseum

Woman with a Hand Mirror from the series The Six Tama Rivers of the Floating World

1830 · color woodblock print

Sheet: 37.5 x 25.3 cm (14 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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