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An educational website devoted to the ukiyo-e artist,
Utagawa
Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)
This site is a catalogue raisonné of the prints and
paintings of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川 国芳). It contains
over 7,000 images, counting multi-sheet compositions as single images. An undertaking such as this can never be
considered complete, and contributions of images and information to KuniyoshiProject@earthlink.net
are always welcome.
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Please follow these
links to view Kuniyoshi’s art with descriptions:
Individual prints of warriors and
historical figures
Warrior triptychs and
diptychs
Acrobats,
top spinners, magicians, and puppeteers
Actor prints Image added 7/12/25
Animal and plant
prints
Children
Chûshingura
prints (Forty-seven rônin)
Comic and miscellaneous
prints Image added 7/13/25
Fan prints
Harimaze
Ken (game
played with the hands) Image added 7/12/25
Komochi-e (trick pictures)
Landscapes
Paintings
Paragons of filial piety
Pictures of Kuniyoshi
Polyptychs of four or more sheets
Prince
Genji
Religious prints
Shini-e (memorial prints)
Shunga
(erotic art)
Sugoroku (a board game)
Sumô wrestler prints
Surimono
Toy prints and
advertising prints Image added 7/13/25 (at
end)
Women Image added 6/25/25
Additional features and links:
Alphabetical list of Kuniyoshi’s print
series
Alphabetical
list of Kuniyoshi’s warrior triptychs and diptychs
Warrior-Prints
of Utagawa Kuniyoshi in Czechoslovak Collections by Libuše Boháčková
Kuniyoshi
in ArtCyclopedia
Bibliography on Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Biography of Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Characters portrayed in Kuniyoshi’s warrior
prints
Glossary of ukiyo-e terms
Kabuki actors’ names in English and
Japanese
Kuniyoshi’s seals
Kuniyoshi’s signatures
Kuniyoshi’s
warrior triptychs and diptychs arranged by publishers
Links
to other sites on the internet with series of Kuniyoshi’s prints
Supplement to Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints
Viewing Japanese Prints (John
Fiorillo’s website)
Seals of Japanese print
publishers
Eric
von Dorster’s album of Kuniyoshi prints on postage
stamps
Tips for the new collector of
Japanese prints
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