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Toyokuni
[Japanese Ukiyo-e Printmaker, 1769-1825]
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Toyokuni 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)
Toyokuni at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Beauty Blotting Her Lip Rouge, ca.1800/05
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Wetmore Print Collection at Connecticut College
5 prints online
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
5 works online
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Kabuki actors meeting before a temple, ca.1811-14
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
An actor of Kabuki
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
2 works illustrated are by Utagawa Toyokuni
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
7 scenes from Chushingura: Revenge of the 47 Samurai
Toyokuni at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
Tobacco & Salt Museum, Tokyo
3 prints
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
3 prints online
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
19 prints online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
8 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
5 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 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
J. Noel Chiappa's Home Page
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Iwai Hanshiro VI as Nanaaya
The actor Iwai Kiyotaro I and his attendant
Nagoya TV Server - Ukiyo-e Museum
Wild geese landing at Iwakimasuya
Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World
Viewing Japanese Prints
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Toyokuni 
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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