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Kunisada Utagawa ( – 12 January ) was born near Edo (today Tokyo) as the son of an affluent merchant with a ferry boat license.

Kuniyasu

In this Japanese name, the surname is Utagawa.

Utagawa Kuniyasu (歌川国安, 1794–1832) was a Japanese artist best known for his prints in the ukiyo-e style as a member of the Utagawa school.

Life and career

Few details are known of Kuniyasu's life. He was born in 1794 and had the given name Yasugorō. His teacher was the Utagawa school master Toyokuni.

Kuniyasu's earliest surviving work is his illustrations to the book Hanashi no momochidori (噺の百千鳥).

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A Japanese ukiyo-e artist.

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Utagawa Kunisada I (歌川國貞 [初代] ) was the most celebrated actor-print designer of the nineteenth century, and certainly the most prolific.

Utagawa Kunisada ( – January 12, ) was the most popular, prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.

He illustrated about a hundred books throughout his career, and designed hundreds of stand-alone prints of beauties (bijin-ga) and actors (yakusha-e).

Kuniyasu also used the art names Ippōsai and Nishikawa Yasunobu.

He died at age 39 in the seventh month of 1832. Works of his continued to be issued following his death, which may suggest they were popular.

His work is held in the permanent collections of several museums worldwide, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art,^[2] the Victoria and Albert