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Kunisada II, artist
Japanese, 1823 - 1880
Hanamurasaki omokage ganji, 1857
color woodcut
34.8 x 23.4 cm (image)
Gift of the Heisler family in memory of Ivan Heisler 1978.1.63c

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Artist Biography: Utagawa Munehisa. ukiyo-e print artist, pupil of Kunisada. At first he signed his prints Baido Kunimasa III or Kunimasa; in 1846 he married his master's daughter, taking the names Kunisada II, Kochoro and Ichijusai; from about 1870, after Kunisada's death, he used the name Koyokuni III (actually IV); (From: Richard Lane, Images from the Floating Word, New York 1978, p.296)

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