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Artist in the Global Art Registry

Toyohara Kunichika

1835–1900 · Japanese

Born: 1835 · Edo
Died: 1900 · Tokyo City

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Toyohara Kunichika was a Japanese woodblock print artist and a student of Utagawa Kunisada. His work primarily consisted of yakusha-e, which are woodblock prints of kabuki actors and scenes.

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Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese: 豊原国周; 30 June 1835 – 1 July 1900) was a Japanese woodblock print artist. Talented as a child, at about thirteen he became a student of Tokyo's then-leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama led to his production primarily of yakusha-e, which are woodblock prints of kabuki actors and scenes from popular plays of the time. An alcoholic and womanizer, Kunichika also portrayed women deemed beautiful (bijinga), contemporary social life, and a few landscapes and historical scenes. He worked successfully in the Edo period, and carried those traditions into the Meiji period. To his contemporaries and now to some modern art historians, this has been seen as a significant achievement during a transitional period of great social and political change in Japan's history.

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Selected registered works by Toyohara Kunichika

Selected from 28 works by Toyohara Kunichika in the Collect24 Registry.

Toyohara Kunichika

Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Print, Woodblock, Woodcut, 1867

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

C24-726229

Toyohara Kunichika

Ichikawa Danjūrō IX in the Role of the Monk Mongaku from the Play "Mongaku Kanjincho", 1896

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

36.2 × 24.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-223187

Toyohara Kunichika

Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Woodblock, Woodcut, Print

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

C24-505393

Toyohara Kunichika

Imaginary portrait, Shuihuzhuan of Stage: Tōryūdai (Mitate Suikoden Tōrōdai) - Actor, Ichikawa Danjūrō plays as Sanjō, 1875

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

35.9 × 24.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-264580

Toyohara Kunichika

Ichikawa Sadanji as Dozaemon Denkichi in a Kabuki Play, September, 1882

One sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

35.6 × 23.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-222706

Toyohara Kunichika

Imaginary portrait, Shuihuzhuan of Stage: Tōryūdai (Mitate Suikoden Tōrōdai) - Actor Nakamura Shikan plays Suekichi, 1875

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

35.9 × 24.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-264587

Toyohara Kunichika

Imaginary portrait, Shuihuzhuan of Stage: Tōryūdai (Mitate Suikoden Tōrōdai) - Actor Ichikawa Sadanji plays Hanaoshō Shinkichi, 1875

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

35.9 × 24.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-264583

Toyohara Kunichika

Two Beauties at Spring Garden with a Pond, ca. 2nd month, 1864

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

36.5 × 25.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-253087

Toyohara Kunichika

Sawamura Tosshō II (1838–86), from the series Mirror of Photographs Backstage (Shashin gakuya kagami - Sawamura Tosshō nisei), ca. 1859–61

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

36.2 × 24.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-228570

Toyohara Kunichika

Ichimura Kakitsu IV as Ushiwaka no Genji in the Kabuki play A Parody of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Mitate Sangokushi-Ushiwaka no Genji), 4th month, 1868

One sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

35.6 × 24.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-225097

Toyohara Kunichika

Ichikawa Kodanji as Seppu Shinsuke, Ichikawa Sadanji as Kishino Toshiaki, Ichikawa Danjūrō as Saijō Takamori, Onoe Kikugorō as Kurata Shinpachirō, Nakamura Chūtarō as Shōtarō, Onoe Kikunosuke as Magoichi, and Ichikawa Kōsaku as Tokumaru in the play Okige no kumo harau asa gochi, March, 1878

Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

36.2 × 24.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-223992