Utagawa Kunisada (Ukiwo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Art)

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To commemorate Kunisada of death 150 years, Tokyo, special exhibition at the Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial Museum of Harajuku.

Kunisada is, in Edo of late, in Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ukiyo-e, which was active in the same period and Hiroshige from painter, leaving the work of more than several tens of thousand points, at the time was proud of the most popular.

Unfortunately, profile in Modern Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, is inferior to Hiroshige et al.

Kunisada had good at actor picture and beautiful pictures of Kabuki.

Draw the person of Kunisada, the form of the body, the eyes, the nose, the face, have been drawn very well-balanced, very orthodox. Both handsome, in beauty, suggests that popular because of Kunisada at the time.

During, Hiroshige draw the landscape of the background, the foreground of the portrait, ukiyo-e, which Kunisada is drawn there were several points.

In Europe to respect the individuality of individual painters, background Cezanne drew, drawn by Renoir a person, unlikely that such.

Ukiyo-e, in addition to the painter, carver, printed nurses, etc., make up a joint work of various craftsmen. In such a situation, two people of artist is, joint one of painting, the wonder is not that far from special.

As the Bakumatsu approaches, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige et al., Went away one after another world.

Kunisada left continues to draw the one picture.

Although works of his last had been exhibited several points, the workmanship is undiminished at all. Already, it is over 75 years old. It's amazing energy.

The Kunisada has finished its lifetime, Bakumatsu just before 1864. It was already a 79-year-old.

In the heart of the name of the person who looked at this exhibition, Kunisada's name, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, must in the same position is given and Hiroshige from.