Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

b. 1786 — d. 1865

21st Century edo (japanese period)Japanese (culture or style)

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) Japanese, 1786-1864

Timeline

Born 1786 — Died 1865

1600s

A Spring Night (Yayoi no yube)

Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Hida no kami Masakiyo

1780s

Potted Violets: Jiraiya (Tsubo sumire, Jiraiya), from the series "Contemporary Parodies of the Thirty-six Selected Flowers (Tosei mitate sanjurokkasen)"

Actors Kataoka Gado II as Florist (Hanaya) Tokubei (R) and Nakamura Daikichi III as Tokubei's Wife (Tsuma) Ofusa (L)

Ko no Morono (Taka no Mronao) in the Play Chushingura

Oiwa's Ghost (Oiwa no borei)

1800s

Warriors Fighting in the Snow

Ichikawa Ebizô V as Togashi Saemon and Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Musashibô Benkei in Kanjinchô (The Subscription List), plate 18 from the series Eighteen Great Kabuki Plays (Jûhachiban no uchi)

1810s

Three actors and a puppet

Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yorimasa (right), Segawa Kikunojo V as Ayame no Mae (center), and Ichikawa Danjuro VII as I no Hayata (left)

The actor Bando Mitsugoro III as Minamoto no Yorimasa

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as I no Hayata

1820s

Goten Hill (Goten-yama), from the series "Flower Viewing in Edo (Edo hanami tsukushi)"

The actors Onoe Kikugoro III, Onoe Matsutake III, and Iwai Kumesaburo II

The actors Onoe Kikugoro III as Hayano Kanpei and Mimasu Gennosuke as Enya Hangan

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Sagami Goro, from the series "Popular Actors as the 108 Heroes of the Water Margin (Ryuko yakusha Suikoden goketsu hyakuichinin no hitori)"

+16

1830s

Woman on her way to visit a shrine

Viewing Maple Trees

Crouching tiger

The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kan Shojo (Sugawara Michizane) and Segawa Kikunojo V as Umeomaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the ninth month, 1832

+11

1840s

Portrait of the Sumo Wrestler Ikezuki Geitazaemon

The actor Nakamura Utaemon IV as Taira Shinno Masakado

The actor Morita Kan'ya, from the series "Pictures and Calligraphy of Kabuki Actors-Poets (Haika shoga kyodai)"

Cherry Blossom Viewing (Shunchaku hana no shizuku)

+13

1850s

The actors Ichikawa Ebizo V as Goshogun Kanki and Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Watonai Sankan in the play "Kokusanya Kassen," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the fifth month, 1850

The actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Mashiba Hisatsugu

The actor Matsumoto Kinsho I as Igami no Gonta at Gontazaka, between Hodogaya and Totsuka, from the series "Tokaido"

Actors as Fukashichi and Omiwa from the play "Imoseyama," from an untitled series of half-block images of kabuki scenes

+25

1860s

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Onoe Kikugoro IV, from the diptych "Visions of Mementos in Double Mirrors (Awase kagami katami no omokage)"

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII Commemorating the Sixth Anniversary of His Death, from the diptych "Visions of Mementos in Double Mirrors (Awase kagami katami no omokage)"

The actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Inada Kozo disguised as Yamagata Gyobunosuke

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Nakamura Kanjaku II

Works

107 artworks

Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

, 1853

View of Sagano (Sagano fukei), from the series "A Modern Genji Picture Contest (Furyu Genji e-awase)"

, 1853

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Ito Sota

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Timeline

Works

Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

View of Sagano (Sagano fukei), from the series "A Modern Genji Picture Contest (Furyu Genji e-awase)"

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII as Ito Sota

The actors Nakamura Tomijuro II as the wet nurse Shigenoi and Ichimura Uzaemon XIII as Jinenjo no Sankichi in the play "Koi Nyobo Somewake Tazuna," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the fifth month, 1854

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Danjuro VIII

The Country Samurai Sachuta and Odan

Memorial portrait: Ichikawa Ebizo V (Danjuro VII) looking up at a painting of the late Danjuro VIII

The actors Nakamura Fukusuke I as Matsugae Matonosuke and Ichikawa Komazo VII as Nikki Danjo in the play "Konoshita Kage Masago no Datezome," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the ninth month, 1855

Joriken riding his sword across water, section of a sheet from an untitled harimaze series

Flourishing of Edo Pictures Depicting Dances (Odori keiyo Edo-e no sakae)

Memorial portrait of Utagawa Hiroshige

Flourishing of Edo Pictures Depicting Dances (Odori keiyo Edo-e no sakae)

Flourishing of Edo Pictures Depicting Dances (Odori keiyo Edo-e no sakae)

Mount Nachi in Kii Province, No. 1 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei ichiban Kishu Nachisan), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

Ishiyama Temple in Omi Province, No. 13 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei jusanban Koshu Ishiyamadera), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V (Ichikawa Danjuro VII)

Imakumano in Kyoto, Yamashiro Province, No. 15 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei jugoban Yamashiro Kyo Imakumano), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

Mii Temple in Omi Province, No. 14 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei juyonban Omi Miidera), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

Chikubu Island in Omi Province, No. 30 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei sanjuban Omi Chikubujima), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

Mount Hokke in Harima Province, No. 26 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei nijurokuban Harima Hokkezan), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

Soji Temple in Settsu Province, No. 22 on the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route (Saikoku junrei nijuniban Settsu no kuni Sojiji), from the series "The Miracles of Kannon (Kannon reigenki)"

Memorial Portrait of the Actor Ichikawa Ebizo V

The Actor Kataoka Nizaemon VIII as Konjin Chogoro, from the series "Atari senkin otoko kagami"

Jewels in the Cool Light of Evening Dew (Ryoko yotsuyu no rama)