Ukiyo-e Museum

Born in Tenmei 6 (1786). Died in Ganji 1 (1864) at the age of 78.
Creative activity period: Bunka 4 (1807) through his death.
Master: Toyokuni Utagawa Pseudonym: Ichiyuusai, Godotei, Gepparou, Kinraisha, Kouchourou, Sandai Toyokuni, Ichiyousai, Kokuwesha, Hokubaiko, Fuchousanjin, Fuchouan, and Kiou.
Kunisada was a good example of Ukiyo-e artists on the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate as well as Kuniyoshi and Hiroshige.
Kunisada produced the greatest number of Ukiyo-e prints among Ukiyo-e artists. His famous works are actors pictures showing their enthusiastic performances and beauty pictures reflecting the sense of chic of women at that time. He produced many sets of print series in his later years. Though he is blamed for overporoduction of pictures, there were excellent ones among them.
He succeeded his master's name Toyokuni calling himself Toyokuni the Second, though actually he was Toyokuni the Third.

Born in Kansei 3 (1791). Died in Kaei 1 (1848) at the age of 57.
Creative activity period: The last years of Bunsei (1818-1830) through the last years of Kouka (1844-1848)
Masters: Kanou Hakkeisai, and Eizan Pseudonym: Keisai, Kokushunrou, Shousen

Eisen began with pictures portraying the quiet beauty of women like those of his master Eizan. In the middle years of Bunsei (1818-1830), Eisen created a unique style of pictures of alluring beauty of women, and expresses the decadent beauty as well as Kunisada Utagawa. Eisen began to produce the indigo-blue prints in the last years of Bunsei (1818-1830) and used a special indigo-blue prior to "Fugaku Sanjurokkei" (36 Scenes of Mount Fuji) by Hokusai Katsushika.

Shusui Taki lives in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture. He studied by himself the Uniyo-e of the Edo period and established a unique world of the woodblock print.
Usually woodblock prints are classified as Western style pictures.
However, his works belong to the traditional Ukiyo-e, and he is recognied as a most unique artist of Japanese style pictures.