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          Born to a puppet and doll sculptor in Edo, Toyokuni Utagawa entered the artistic studio of Toyoharu Utagawa (c) at the age of Toyokuni's early..

          Utagawa Toyokuni I died nearly years ago and still doesn't get the respect he deserves.

        1. Utagawa Toyokuni I died nearly years ago and still doesn't get the respect he deserves.
        2. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who elevated it to the position of great fame and power.
        3. Born to a puppet and doll sculptor in Edo, Toyokuni Utagawa entered the artistic studio of Toyoharu Utagawa (c) at the age of Toyokuni's early.
        4. A prolific artist he designed over ninety print series, many hundreds of single sheet prints, and illustrations for over books.
        5. One of the great masters of the Utagawa school and contemporary of Kunisada I, he specialised in and developed the warrior print genre with amazing and radical.

          6. Utagawa Toyokuni

          In this Japanese name, the surname is Utagawa.

          Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese: 歌川豊国; 1769 – 24 February 1825), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō (art-name) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabukiactor prints.

          He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who elevated it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century.

          Biography

          He was born, the son of Kurahashi Gorobei, a carver of dolls and puppets, including replicas of kabuki actors.[1] At around 14, Toyokuni was apprenticed to the first head of the Utagawa house, Utagawa Toyoharu, whom his father knew well and who lived nearby.[2] One of his fellow pupils under Toyoharu was Toyohiro, whose pupil was the great landscape artist Hiroshige.

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