Utagawa Kunisada is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: Japanese printmaker and illustrator, 1786-1864. The Getty record lists his roles as printmaker, illustrator and painter and gives his culture or style term as Japanese. It carries 36 name forms, among them Toyokuni III, Kochoro and Gototei Kunisada, written in Latin letters and in Japanese characters, and the identifier 500121373. In this atlas he is linked as the maker of the work Origin of Iwato Kagura Dance.
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Source Origin of Iwato Kagura Dance, File Record (Wikimedia Commons)Descriptiontier 3Quote, Description
"Origin of Iwato Kagura Dance" triptych by Utagawa Kunisada (aka Toyokuni III).
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Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist.
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Born: Tokyo (Tōkyō, Japan) (inhabited place)
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He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.
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His first known print dates to the year 1807.
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He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.
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