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Jun 30, 1835 Edo, Japan Died on 01 Jul 1900 (aged 65)
19th-century Japanese woodblock print artist
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About Toyohara Kunichika
- Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese: ?? ??; 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 ukiyo-e actor-prints, 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.
