Kuniyoshi Project

An educational website devoted to the ukiyo-e artist, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

 

This site is a catalogue raisonné of Kuniyoshi’s art, modeled after Horst Graebner’s Kunisada Project.  Kuniyoshi may have designed as many as 10,000 prints and created at least 62 signed paintings. 1,2  An undertaking such as this can never be considered complete, and contributions of images and information to KuniyoshiProject@earthlink.net are solicited. 

 

Please follow these links to view prints and descriptions:

Individual prints of warriors and historical figures

Images added to S55 8/29/10

S35.17 added 8/31/10

Images added to S24 9/1/10

Images added to S80 9/5/10

Warrior triptychs and diptychs

 T288 and T323 added 8/20/10

Actor prints  Image added 8/28/10

Animal and plant prints

Children

Chûshingura prints (Forty-seven rônin) Images added to S80 9/5/10

Comic and miscellaneous prints

Fan prints

Genji triptychs

Harimaze

Landscapes

Paintings 

Paragons of filial piety

Polyptychs of four or more sheets

Sumô wrestler prints

Surimono

Women Series added 8/25/10

 

Additional features and links:

Alphabetical list of Kuniyoshi’s print series

Alphabetical list of Kuniyoshi’s warrior triptychs and diptychs

Bibliography on Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Biography of Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Index of characters portrayed in Kuniyoshi’s warrior prints

Glossary of ukiyo-e terms

Guide to the ukiyo-e sites on the internet (Hans Olof Johansson’s website)

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

Kuniyoshi in ArtCyclopedia

 

Copyright © 2006 - 2010 William Pearl.  All rights for commercial uses are reserved.  Permission for non-commercial use is granted.

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1Clark,  Timothy.  Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection.  2009, Royal Academy of Arts, London, p. 19.

2Clark,  Timothy.  Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection.  2009, Royal Academy of Arts, London, p. 178.

 

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