# Utagawa Kunisada

Japanese, 1786–1865

Kunisada entered Utagawa Toyokuni’s studio as a teenager and became the most prolific and commercially successful designer of his age, producing tens of thousands of designs. Kabuki actors were his main subject, alongside fashionable beauties and illustrations for popular fiction. In 1844 he took his teacher’s name, signing as Toyokuni, and he led the Utagawa school through the middle of the nineteenth century.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

6 works in the collection.

- [Iwai Kumesaburo II as the Courtesan Takao in Banzei Okuni Kabuki](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/iwai-kumesaburo-ii-as-the-courtesan-takao-in-banzei-okuni-ka-aic-222598), Utagawa Kunisada, c. 1827. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [A View of the Large New Room at Sakurai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-view-of-the-large-new-room-at-sakurai-cma-123462), Utagawa Kunisada, early or mid 1830s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [A View of the Large New Room at Sakurai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-view-of-the-large-new-room-at-sakurai-cma-123463), Utagawa Kunisada, early or mid 1830s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [A View of the Large New Room at Sakurai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-view-of-the-large-new-room-at-sakurai-cma-123464), Utagawa Kunisada, early or mid 1830s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [A View of the Large New Room at Sakurai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-view-of-the-large-new-room-at-sakurai-cma-123465), Utagawa Kunisada, early or mid 1830s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/danjuro-vii-s-benkei-as-fudo-myoo-met-54383), Utagawa Kunisada, ca. 1824. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.