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Japan: Actors Ichikawa Ebizo V as Tamiya Iemon and Onoe Kikugoro III as the ghost of Oiwa Yurei. Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), 1836

Japan: Actors Ichikawa Ebizo V as Tamiya Iemon and Onoe Kikugoro III as the ghost of Oiwa Yurei. Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), 1836

Utagawa Kunisada (also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III) 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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