Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Shichifukujin, Seven Gods of Good Fortune
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#109069300
Item
Ukiyo-e(People)
Artist
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Price
$1320.00
Weight
0.01kg
size
width
24.5cm 9 3/4"
height
36.3cm 14 1/4"
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Formal title is "Kaiun Shusse Gattai Shichifukujin"
Hotei, Fukurokuju, Benzaiten, Jurojin, Bisyamonten, Ebisu coalesce to form Daikokuten. It's seemingly a single face, but if you see from a different angle, you could see many figures pop up. This is "Yose-e" using technic of "Torompe l'oeil". Created in 1844-1847.
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Although Utagawa Kuniyoshi created all genre of ukiyoe, many of his impressive works are not portraits of beauties or actors. 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.
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