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Utagawa Toyokuni I
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The Actor Ōtani Tomoemon in the Role of Ono Sadakurō - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Picking Clams - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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The actor Arashi Ryuzo II as the money lender Ishibe Kinkichi - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Courtesans Promenading on the Nakanochō in Yoshiwara - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Women and an Infant Boy in a Public Bath House - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III in a Mad Female Role - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Kabuki Actors: Bando Mitsugorō and Iwai Hanshirō - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Ichikawa Komazō II as Akaneya Hanshichi - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Famous Beauty Escorted by Women of Different Rank - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Four Women Passing a Group of Trees - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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The First Visit of the Cuckoo - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Onoe Matsusuke as the Ghost of the Murdered Wife Oiwa, in _A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tokaido Road_ - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Scene from a Drama - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Ichikawa Komazō II in the Role of Akaneya Hanshichi from the Play Hadesugata On'a Maiginu - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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The Actor Segawa Roko as the Woodseller Ohara Leading an Ox - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Actor Nakamura Utayemon with Two Women Preparing for the New Year Ceremony - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Representation of the Dance-Play _Dōjōji_ - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Two Women in a Boat; One Holding a Basket of Mussels - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Print of a Kabuki Dancer from the Maiden of the Dōjōji Temple (Musume Dōjōji) - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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An Actor Beside Water - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Ichikawa Komazō III in the Role of Kameō with Iwai Kumesaburō in the Role of Kameō's Wife, Oyasu, from the Play Shunkan futatsu omokage - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Women on a Veranda - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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The Geisha To’e as a Vendor of Poems, from the series Gion Festival Costume Parade (Gion mikoshi arai nerimono sugata) - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Ushiwaka-maru in Armour - Utagawa Toyokuni IPrint
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Artist Biography
Utagawa Toyokuni I
"My pictures are merely something that I draw, and nothing more than that." Toyokuni's self-assessment was modest to the point of dishonesty. He transformed kabuki actor portraiture from stiff formal likenesses into dynamic images of performers in character on stage, and in doing so built the most commercially powerful woodblock print studio in Edo.
He was born in 1769, the son of a puppet maker. He studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, founder of the Utagawa school, and followed convention by taking one syllable of his master's name. His early work synthesised the styles of Utamaro, Eishi and Choki through close study and relentless practice. By the mid-1790s he had found his own voice. Yakusha Butai no Sugatae (Portraits of Actors in Their Various Roles), a series of large polychrome prints produced between 1794 and 1796, showed kabuki actors costumed and posed on stage rather than seated in formal dress. The series was a commercial triumph and set the standard for actor portraiture for the next generation.
He also excelled at bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women, establishing compositions that ukiyo-e artists followed for decades. His innovations extended to format: he pioneered the use of diptych, triptych and polyptych arrangements that allowed more complex narrative compositions than the single sheet could hold.
As demand surged, Toyokuni's studio expanded until his personal involvement in each print became nominal. The quality of his later work declined, but the school he built survived him. His two most gifted pupils, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, became major figures in their own right, and the Utagawa school dominated ukiyo-e production through the final decades of the Edo period. He died in 1825.
He was born in 1769, the son of a puppet maker. He studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, founder of the Utagawa school, and followed convention by taking one syllable of his master's name. His early work synthesised the styles of Utamaro, Eishi and Choki through close study and relentless practice. By the mid-1790s he had found his own voice. Yakusha Butai no Sugatae (Portraits of Actors in Their Various Roles), a series of large polychrome prints produced between 1794 and 1796, showed kabuki actors costumed and posed on stage rather than seated in formal dress. The series was a commercial triumph and set the standard for actor portraiture for the next generation.
He also excelled at bijin-ga, pictures of beautiful women, establishing compositions that ukiyo-e artists followed for decades. His innovations extended to format: he pioneered the use of diptych, triptych and polyptych arrangements that allowed more complex narrative compositions than the single sheet could hold.
As demand surged, Toyokuni's studio expanded until his personal involvement in each print became nominal. The quality of his later work declined, but the school he built survived him. His two most gifted pupils, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi, became major figures in their own right, and the Utagawa school dominated ukiyo-e production through the final decades of the Edo period. He died in 1825.
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