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THBAfter Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) Japanese, Color Kabuki Print
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveAug 25, 2024
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After Toyohara Kunichika (1835-1900) Japanese, Color Kabuki Print. Likely created by one of his students, as the style is extremely similar but the signature does not match. Depicts two actors, the masculine cross-eyed one leering over the shy feminine one. Label with prior gallery information on back.
Overall: 20 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.
Sight: 13 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.
#2926 .
Toyohara Kunichika was born Oshima Yasohachi in June 1835 in the Kyobashi district, a merchant and artisan area of Edo, Japan. He abandoned an apprenticeship at a thread and yarn store at age ten to work at a dry goods shop, painting and sketching items. His father lost the bathhouse he ran shortly thereafter, and the family changed their surname to distance themselves from this failure, making him Arakawa Yasohachi. At twelve he began to design kabuki actor portraits for local artist Toyohara Chikanobu, who recommended him at thirteen to become a student of Tokyo’s leading print maker, Utagawa Kunisada. His deep appreciation and knowledge of kabuki drama led to his production primarily of yakusha-e, which are woodblock prints of actors and scenes from popular plays of the time. In 1854 he took the name “Kunichika,” a composite of the names of his two teachers, Kunisada and Chikanobu. In 1861 Kunichika married his first wife, Ohana, and in that same year had a daughter, Hana. He fathered two out-of-wedlock children with whom he had no contact, but remained strongly attached to Hana after divorcing Ohana. By the 1870s he was known as a womanizer and alcoholic, sometimes performing in amateur burlesque shows. He enjoyed partying with the geishas and prostitutes of the Yoshiwara district, and was a backstage regular at numerous theaters. He was constantly in debt and often borrowed money from the kabuki actors he depicted so admiringly. Only one photograph of him exists, taken in his brother’s photo shop the year before he died in Honjo in July 1900. His work is credited with bridging the tumultuous gap between the Edo and Meiji periods.
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