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Utagawa Kunisada
[Japanese Ukiyo-e Printmaker, 1786-1864]
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Utagawa Kunisada Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana 2 works online
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain Kabuki actor as a woodcutter
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum, New York City 2 works illustrated are by Utagawa Kunisada
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia 13 works online
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Scene from the 53 Stations of the Tokaido Series
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Scene from Chushingura: Revenge of the 47 Samurai
Utagawa Kunisada at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville Ohan and Choemon, 1860
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville The Actors Kasugaya Tokijiro and Hananaya Urazato in a Play, 1856
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville From Inside the Sixty-Plus Japanese Prefectures-Izo, ca.1845
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville Two prints
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville Three prints
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville Woman with Bow and Arrow, ca.1855
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville Scene from a Kabuki Play, ca.1842
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 5 works online when last checked
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Artelino Ukiyo-e Signatures Numerous sample signatures
Signatures of Ukiyo-e Artists Includes a brief description of how to interpret a Ukiyo-e signature
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Utagawa Kunisada at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) - Project
J. Noel Chiappa's Home Page
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum Bon festival dance
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum Ichikawa Danjuro VII The sumo wrestler Abumatsu
Ohmi Gallery: Ukiyo-e and Shin Hanga prints from the collection of Dr Ross Walker
Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World
Viewing Japanese Prints
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Utagawa Kunisada  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
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