print email comment close Kunisada and Kabuki URL: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/japan/gallery/KUN/kunisada/Intro/main.htm Description: This online exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is devoted to depictions of Kabuki actors by the artist Kunisada, later known as Toyokuni Utagawa. Woodblock printing was part of the cultural phenomenon, the "floating world" of pleasure ("ukiyo"), developed in Tokyo (then Edo) during Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). From The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. Publisher: Fitzwilliam Museum Library of Congress Subject Headings: Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 Kabuki Prints, Japanese Ukiyoe Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1786-1865 LII Database Information: Record 3548 created by Pat Fell on 10/11/2002 Last modification on 10/09/2004 Published: 10/11/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3548