Author: Kunisada
Alternate names: Toyokuni Utagawa; Kunisada Utagawa; Utagawa Toyokuni III; 三代 歌川 豊国; Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni; Utagawa Kunisada; 歌川 国貞
Born: 1786
Died: 1865
Bio: 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.