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Toyohara Kunichika

1835–1900 · Japanese

Born
1835 · Edo
Died
1900 · Tokyo City

28 works in the Collect24 Registry

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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 from 28 works by Toyohara Kunichika in the Collect24 Registry.

Toyohara Kunichika, Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Print, Woodblock, Woodcut

Toyohara Kunichika

Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Print, Woodblock, Woodcut, 1867

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

C24-726229

Toyohara Kunichika, Board game of the Flower Stage (Hanabutai atari sugoroku)

Toyohara Kunichika

Board game of the Flower Stage (Hanabutai atari sugoroku), 1883

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

77.8 × 72.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-270200

Toyohara Kunichika, Kobushō Kasei from the Series Thirty-Six Restaurants In New Tokyo

Toyohara Kunichika

Kobushō Kasei from the Series Thirty-Six Restaurants In New Tokyo, late 19th century

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

37.5 × 25.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-253086

Toyohara Kunichika, Imaginary portrait, Shuihuzhuan of Stage: Tōryūdai (Mitate Suikoden Tōrōdai) - Actor Onoe Kikugorō plays as Kumon no Ryūkichi

Toyohara Kunichika

Imaginary portrait, Shuihuzhuan of Stage: Tōryūdai (Mitate Suikoden Tōrōdai) - Actor Onoe Kikugorō plays as Kumon no Ryūkichi, 1875

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

35.9 × 24.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-264577

Toyohara Kunichika, Imaginary portrait, Shuihuzhuan of Stage: Tōryūdai (Mitate Suikoden Tōrōdai) - Actor, Bandō Hikozaburō plays as Nyūunryū

Toyohara Kunichika

Imaginary portrait, Shuihuzhuan of Stage: Tōryūdai (Mitate Suikoden Tōrōdai) - Actor, Bandō Hikozaburō plays as Nyūunryū, 1875

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

35.9 × 24.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-264584

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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