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Utagawa Kuniyoshi(1797-1862) is one of the most prominent ukiyoe artists in the Edo era. He studies under Utagawa Toyokuni when he was 15 years old. He used several artist's name such as Sauhousya, Ichiyusai and Chouourou.
Although Kuniyoshi created all genre of ukiyoe, many of his impressive works are not portraits of beauties or actors. He becase famous after creating several musha-e or prints of warriors such as the image of Taitano Tomonari as a ghost and Tsuzoku Suiko-den.
He is called an “artist of unique imagination” since he introduced new ideas one after another out of his abundant imagination into wide ranged field of his artworks.
Among of all Kuniyoshi’s artworks, giga pieces (humorous or satiric paintings, or sketches or drawings done in fun) are most popular. Especially his giga pieces which depict anthropomorphic images of animals have been very popular throughout the ages. Kuniyoshi was known as very enthusiastic ailurophile (cat lover) and depicted many cats in his artworks. He also anthropomorphized gold fish, carp and turtles.
He also created unique pieces playing with objects’shapes such as creating a human face with different shapes of human bodies. His unique artworks show his incomparably abundant artistic imagination.
This artwork is one of his unique artworks called giga. Many of naked male bodies composing a profile of a man. There is a short poem "hito no kokoro ha samazamana monoda, iro iro kufuu shite, hito you you hitoni natta" which means that there are some people who do not praise people who worked hard to obtain a certain social status.
Kuniyochi ga seal is applied
Published in 1891
Publisher Izumi Katsujiro
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