Toyohara Kunitika ( Japanese 豊 原 国 п Toyohara: Kunitika , 1835 - 1900 ) is a Japanese artist, one of the leading masters of ukiyo-e at its last stage of development.
| Toyohara Kunitika | |
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| 豊 原 国 周 | |
 Photo of Toyohara Kunitika. 1897 year. | |
| Date of Birth | 1835 |
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| Date of death | 1900 |
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| Genre | yakusya-e , bidzing |
| Style | ukiyo-e |
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Biography
At the age of 13, Yasokhashi Oshima (real name of the artist) entered the apprenticeship of Utagawa Kunisade .
He took himself a creative pseudonym - Kunitika, which consisted of the first characters of his two teachers . Kunitika performed several portraits of Utagawa Kunisada and also a memorial portrait in memory of the teacher. Kunitika was one of the last masters to preserve the classic Ukiyo-e traditions. [one]
Notes
- ↑ World Art of the Master of Japanese Engraving / comp. I.G. Mosin. - SPb, 2007. - ISBN ISBN 5-9603-0033-8 , LBC 85.154 ..
Literature
- The Big Russian Encyclopedia and the Japan Today Project.
Links
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Toyohara Kunitika
- Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192114476 , ISBN 9780192114471 ; OCLC 5246796