Kunisada
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Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19t
Woodblock print portrait of Utagawa Kunisada, at the age of 80 years, dated January 1865. This memorial portrait was designed by his principal student, Kunisada II, and is one of the few known images of Kunisada.
Twilight snowfall at Ueno, famous example of beauty portraits, c. 1850
Snow Scene
The Hours of the Yoshiwara, c. 1818, from a well-known early bijin-ga series by Kunisada
Shunga
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Shunga is a type of Japanese erotic art typically executed as a kind of ukiyo-e, often in woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Tr
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…is also largely unexplored. He was no less productive in the area of ehon than he was in full-sized prints, and notable among his book prints are shunga pictures, which appeared in numerous books. Due to censorship, they are signed only on the title page with his alias "Matahei". Landscape prints and…
Two Lovers, Hokusai From The Adonis Plant (Fukujusō) Woodblock print, from a set of 12, ōban c. 1815
Couple in Winter shunga by Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1770
Torii Kiyonobu I. Woodblock. Shunga. 1703.
A soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army has relations with a Russian woman while a soldier of the same nationality watches from the ground, alluding to the Russo-Japanese War. 1905.