Top Quality Art - Ichikawa Sadanji is a painting by Toyohara Kunichika which was uploaded on September 5th, 2018.
Title
Top Quality Art - Ichikawa Sadanji
Artist
Toyohara Kunichika
Medium
Painting - Woodprint
Description
【TOYOHARA KUNICHIKA】
「Ichikawa Sadanji」
(Top Quality Image Edition)
【Toyohara Kunichika】
(Japanese: 豊原 国周; 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.
【豊原 国周】(Toyohara Kunichika / とよはら くにちか)
天保6年6月5日〈1835年6月30日〉 - 明治33年〈1900年〉7月1日
幕末から明治にかけての浮世絵師。
豊原周信及び歌川国貞(三代目歌川豊国)の門人。本姓は荒川氏、俗称は八十八。
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September 5th, 2018