Kuniyoshi, Utagawa

(1/1/1798-4/14/1861 Edo)

(Japan); aka Yanagiya / Magosaburo, Ikusa / Ichiyusai / Chooro / Saihosha / Kuniyoshi, Wafutei

   Painter, woodblock printmaker, and poet. Known to have illustrated more than 40 shunga books. He often included cats in the erotic scenes. Reproductions: All passion spent — the satisfied woman; c1855; woodblock; Olley, 2005: p. 27 . [Copulating couple], from Chimpen Shinkei Bai (The Pillowed Boudoir); 1839; Rawson, 1983: Fig. 253 . [Erotic scenes]; Evans, 1975: figs. 6.104-6.106 [B] and colorplate 16 [C]. Lovemaking on summer's night, from Eight Views of Omi; c1840; Ronin, 1979: fig. 75 [C]. [Lovers]; Fagioli 1997: plate 169 [B]. [Lovers after sex]; c1855; Gnojew- ski, 2004: p. 39 [C]. [Lovers having sex]; c1830; Klinger, 1984: plates xxiii-xiv [C]. [Nude couple after sex]; c1855; Illing, 1978: plate 38 [C]. [Phallic-headed dancing Geishas]; 1850; Kronhausen, 1970c: p. 239 [B]. Tea after happy lovemaking; Rawson, 1981: plate 160 [C] / Lucie-Smith 1997: p. 78 [C]. [Woman's face a composite of nude bodies]; c1848-1850; Gnojewski, 2004: p. 17 [C]. Women at the bath; c1840; Solow, 1980: p. 6 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 8: p. 150; ThB XXII 1928: p. 106.