by Sarah E. Thompson, Masato Matsushima, Noriko Katsumori, Kazushi Kuroda, Chika Kagami, Akira Tsukahara, Yuiko Miwa
Rival 'ukiyo-e' masters Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797?1861) and Utagawa Kunisada (1786?1865) were the two most admired designers of figure prints in 19th-century Japan. Famous for the realism of his port…