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[Japanese Music] Kunisada aka Toyokuni III. (1786-1865) . "Musicians Playing on the Veranda" - Ukiyo-e color woodblock triptych. A triptych color woodblock print, ca. 1860, matted and framed. Each panel measuring 34.3 x 23.2 cm (13½x9")., framed to 48.5 x 98 cm (19x38½"). The work depicts three musicians, one playing a kokyu, a shamisen, and a koto. Not examined outside of frame but in apparently fine condition, with bright and vivid colors.
Kunisada was the most prolific of all the Ukiyo-e artists. He studied under Utagawa Toyokuni (from which he adopted the "kuni" name) and excelled primarily as a designer of kabuki actor prints and portraits of women. He also designed a large number of shunga (erotica pictures) in book format. He was a noted poet and a member of a prestigious literary circle that included popular writers Shikitei Sanba and Santo Kyoden. Kunisada supplanted his master's adopted son and son-in-law Toyokuni II in 1844 and due to this succession, he is widely referred to as Toyokuni III.
Kunisada was the most prolific of all the Ukiyo-e artists. He studied under Utagawa Toyokuni (from which he adopted the "kuni" name) and excelled primarily as a designer of kabuki actor prints and portraits of women. He also designed a large number of shunga (erotica pictures) in book format. He was a noted poet and a member of a prestigious literary circle that included popular writers Shikitei Sanba and Santo Kyoden. Kunisada supplanted his master's adopted son and son-in-law Toyokuni II in 1844 and due to this succession, he is widely referred to as Toyokuni III.
[Japanese Music] Kunisada aka Toyokuni III. (1786-1865) . "Musicians Playing on the Veranda" - Ukiyo-e color woodblock triptych. A triptych color woodblock print, ca. 1860, matted and framed. Each panel measuring 34.3 x 23.2 cm (13½x9")., framed to 48.5 x 98 cm (19x38½"). The work depicts three musicians, one playing a kokyu, a shamisen, and a koto. Not examined outside of frame but in apparently fine condition, with bright and vivid colors.
Kunisada was the most prolific of all the Ukiyo-e artists. He studied under Utagawa Toyokuni (from which he adopted the "kuni" name) and excelled primarily as a designer of kabuki actor prints and portraits of women. He also designed a large number of shunga (erotica pictures) in book format. He was a noted poet and a member of a prestigious literary circle that included popular writers Shikitei Sanba and Santo Kyoden. Kunisada supplanted his master's adopted son and son-in-law Toyokuni II in 1844 and due to this succession, he is widely referred to as Toyokuni III.
Kunisada was the most prolific of all the Ukiyo-e artists. He studied under Utagawa Toyokuni (from which he adopted the "kuni" name) and excelled primarily as a designer of kabuki actor prints and portraits of women. He also designed a large number of shunga (erotica pictures) in book format. He was a noted poet and a member of a prestigious literary circle that included popular writers Shikitei Sanba and Santo Kyoden. Kunisada supplanted his master's adopted son and son-in-law Toyokuni II in 1844 and due to this succession, he is widely referred to as Toyokuni III.