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Toyokuni, artist
Japanese, 1769 - 1825
The actors Onoe Matsusuke I and Onoe Eisaburo as Daibutsu Bozu (right) and Issun Tokubei, 1805 - 1810
color woodcut
37.5 x 51.8 cm (image)
Gift of Patricia Brown McNamara, Jane Brown Dunaway, and Helen Brown Jarman in memory of Mary Wattis Brown 64.47.121.2

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Artist Biography: Utagawa Toyokuni. Go=Ichiyosai. Other names used: Kurahashi Toyokuni, Kumaimon, Kumakichi, Ichiyosai; Ukiyo-e painter, printmaker; lived and worked in Edo; Son of sculptor of puppets and pupil of Utagawa Toyaharu. influenced by almost every well-known contemporary print artist: a thorough eclectic, but with a number of personal mannerisms; his most typical work consisted of actor prints (both in their stage roles and in private life); also did book illustrations; most prominent and popular member of the Utagawa School; had many followers;