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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese: 歌川国芳) (ca. 1797 - April 14, 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school.
Photo Credit:Royal Academy of Arts
Japanese Events in London: 13th - 19th April 2009
We start our first blog with a great event: one of Japan's finest artists, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, is on exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, (6 Burlington Gardens, Westminster, London, W1J 0BD). The event will run from the 21st March 2009 until 7th June 2009.
Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi started at the age of 14 at the Utagawa School: where he got his name - a tradition of art schools at the time. In 1827, aged 29, he made his first commercial breakthrough with six illustrations for the story of the 108 heroes, commissioned by the publisher Kagaya Kichibei.
This exhibition at the Royal Academy features over 150 works by this influential Japanese artist who, along with Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, dominated nineteenth century printmaking in Japan. His subject matter varied from historic Japanese heroes to animal portraits as well as less conventional landscape prints popular in the West. Go and see it! For more information, please click here: Royal Academy of Arts, Japanese Exhibtion.
