Utagawa Toyokuni

Utagawa Toyokuni

▪ Japanese artist
original name  Kurahashi Kumakichi , later  Kumauemon , also called  Toyokuni 
born 1769, Edo [now Tokyo]
died Feb. 24, 1825, Edo

      Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) movement who developed the style of his master, Utagawa Toyoharu, making it one of the most popular of its day.

 Toyokuni specialized in prints of actors but was also known for his portraits of women. His “Yakusha butai-no-sugatae” (“Portraits of Actors in Their Various Roles”), a series of large nishiki-e, or polychrome prints, created between 1794 and 1796, marked the peak of his creative work. His drawing for wood-block prints was characterized by the use of powerful and vivid lines that achieved an effect of exaggeration reminiscent of the style of his contemporary Sharaku. Toyokuni's later style degenerated frequently into sheer grotesquerie.
 

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