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Memorial portrait: Ichikawa Ebizo V (Danjuro VII) looking up at a painting of the late Danjuro VIII

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

1854

Memorial portrait: Ichikawa Ebizo V (Danjuro VII) looking up at a painting of the late Danjuro VIII by Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

Medium

Color woodblock print; oban

Dimensions

37.7 × 25.5 cm (14 13/16 × 10 in.)

Classification

print

Department

Arts of Asia

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

23850

About the Artist

Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) · 1786–1864

Utagawa Kunisada I, also known as Toyokuni III (1786–1865), was born Sumida Shōgorō in the Honjo district of Edo (modern Tokyo) into a family that operated a hereditary ferry-boat service, providing stability after his father's early death. Displaying prodigious talent in drawing from childhood, he became an apprentice to the master Utagawa Toyokuni I around 1801 at age fifteen, entering the prest...

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