page_title: Utagawa Toyokuni
hierarchical_section_title: Utagawa Toyokuni
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 『（初代）歌川豊国肖像』。初代歌川国貞 画。『戯作六家撰』所収。早稲田大学坪内博士記念演劇博物館収蔵。 English: A Portrait of Toyokuni Utagawa I (1769–1825) by Kunisada Utagawa I (1786–1865), from Gisaku Rokkasen (1856). A collection of Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum.
context_page_description: Utagawa Toyokuni, also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who really moved it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century.
context_section_description: Utagawa Toyokuni (Japanese: 歌川豊国; 1769 in Edo – 24 February 1825 in Edo), also often referred to as Toyokuni I, to distinguish him from the members of his school who took over his gō (art-name) after he died, was a great master of ukiyo-e, known in particular for his kabuki actor prints. He was the second head of the renowned Utagawa school of Japanese woodblock artists, and was the artist who really moved it to the position of great fame and power it occupied for the rest of the nineteenth century.
caption: Toyokuni Utagawa by Kunisada
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