Collection: Utagawa Kunisada

Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

His formative teachers included Hanabusa Ikkei and Utagawa Toyokuni I. His practice spanned portrait. His style aligns with Utagawa school. His oeuvre belongs more precisely to the Bijin Ga current.