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          UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI () AND UTAGAWA KUNISADA (UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III, ).

        1. UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI () AND UTAGAWA KUNISADA (UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III, ).
        2. Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III) ( objects) · Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代歌川豊国 ( objects) · Dr Ellis Tinios ( objects).
        3. This sixteen work installation features images of dragons and women who not only gaze at the moon but also produce fabulous works of art.
        4. He was born Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin- Latour in Grenoble, Isère.
        5. Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) ().

          6. This sixteen work installation features images of dragons and women who not only gaze at the moon but also produce fabulous works of art....

          Toyohara Kunichika print from 1863
          Portrait of Utagawa Kunisada I

           

           

           

          Utagawa Kunisada I (歌川國貞 [初代] 1786-1865) was the most celebrated actor-print designer of the nineteenth century, and certainly the most prolific.

          He was born and raised in the Honjô district of Edo, the son of a well-to-do ferry owner. This licensed ferry service provided the family with a measure of financial security that Kunisada was able to access during his early years of printmaking apprenticeship.

          Researching Utagawa Kunisada' prints is more difficult than I had anticipated.

          His family name was Tsunoda (角田) and given name Shôgorô IX (庄五朗) and also Shôzô (庄蔵). [Note: Some have read the kanji for Tsunoda 角田 as "Sumida."]

          In 1800-1801, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he became a pupil of Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊國 1769-1825) and took the artist name "Kunisada" (國貞) soon thereafter (see signature image at immediate right).

          In 1/1807 he produced his first independent work — an illustrated promotional brochure for perfumed o