Japan: The ghost of Menoto Igarashi, from the play 'Otogi Banashi Hakata no Imori'. Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), 1852

Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Toyokuni III (1786 – 12 January 1865) was the most popular, prolific and financially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan.

In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

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