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Color Paintings
of Utagawa Kuniyoshi
by Jacek Michalak


Kindle Edition
Jacek Michalak









Kuroda Ukinaga, Japanese actor, 1810-1816
Saitogo Kunitake, Japanese actor, 1810-1816
High Noon at Kasumigaseki, 1830

Seaweed Gatherers at Omari, c.1833


In the Waves at Kakuda enroute to Sado Island, Edo period, c.1835
Sakata Kintoki struggling with a Huge Carp in a Waterfall, 1836
In order to escape from Moriya who ambushed him Prince Shôtoku vanishes into
a tree on which his shadowy form appears, 1840

People stopping to admire the gourd that miraculously appeared at the time of
the birth of Prince Shôtoku, 1840
Prince Shôtoku directing the attack on Moriya's castle, 1840

Sosan returning to his mother, c.1840


Tokiwa-Gozen with her three children in the snow, c.1840
Animated Gourd, c.1841

Mount Fuji from the Sumida River embankment, c.1842


Kidomaru, c.1830-c.1843
A fierce depiction of Uesugi Kenshin seated, 1843-1844
Bijin with a dog in the snow, 1845
Hatakeyama sitting next to a Go board, 1845
Mitsukini Defying the Skeleton, 1845

Neve, the moon is chilling, 1840-1845


Yorimasa shooting at the monster Nuye, c.1845
Otsu-e Paintings Coming Alive Triptych, c.1847
Ishi-jo, wife of Oboshi Yoshio, one of the loyal ronin, 1848
Thirty-six Famous Battles, 1848
Kamei Rokuro and the Black Bear in the Snow, 1849
Shoki and Demon, Edo period, c.1850
Prince Shotoku, 1852
Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido: Warabi, Inuyama Dosetsu, Edo period,
1852
A beauty with a face brush
A cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an octopus
A man
A man confronted with an apparition of the Fox goddess
A person as a
person should be
A record of origins of the great country of Japan
A
samurai overwhelming a giant serpent
A seated woman sewing a kimono
A shapeshifting cat

A Snowstorm at Kinryozan Temple


A street prostitute
Actor
Actors
Amakasu Omi no Kami
Animals dyeing fabrics

Apparition of the monstrous cat


At first glance he looks very fiarce, but he's really a nice person
At the
shore of the Sumida river

Autumn
Banners for the boys festival
Benkei dragging the Miidera bell up a mountain
Benkei holdin a
halberd
Black carp
Caga no Chiyo standing beside a well
Catfish
Cats forming the caracters for catfish
Cats suggested as the fifty three stations of the Tokaido

Caulking
boats
Clearing water at Horikawa
Courtesan and Her Maiko
Design the Struggle
Dipicting the characters from the Chushingura
Dipicting the
characters from the Chushingura
Courtesan in training
Dipicting the characters from the Chushingura
Dipicting
the characters from the Chushingura
Dipicting
the characters from the Chushingura
Dragon
Eight Hundred Heroes of Our Country
Eight Hundred Heroes of Our Country
Elephant catching a flying tengu
Even thought she looks old, she is young
Faces
Ferryman
For cats in different poses
From Suikoden of Japanese Heroes
Fundacao Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin
Fusehime saving Inue Shimbyoe Masahi from a thunderboit
Fuwa
Katsuemon
Half-legth portrait of Bazui Chobel
Half-legth portrait of Goshaku Somegoro
Hanagami Danjo no jo Arakage fighting a giant salamander
Happinata
Koju on a rearing horse
Hara Hayato no Sho holding a spear
Hata Rokurozaemon with his dog
Hasebe Nobutsura during the taira attack on the takakura palace
Hatakeyama Shigetada
Hatsuhana doing penance under the Tonosawa waterfall
Hattara
Sonja with his white tiger
Hawk
Heavy rain

Heikea japonica, The ghost of Taira Tomomori along with the anchor he
drowned with, and heikegani with faces of fallen soldiers
Heroes of
china and Japan

Heroes of china and Japan


Heroes of china and Japan
Homing geese at Kanagawa
Homing geese at the Northern capital
Honjo Shigenaga parrying an exploding shell
Horibe Yahei
Kamaru parrying a spear thrust Horse, Soga
Goro on a rearing horse
Hotei
Hotei, one of the seven Gods of good fortune
Ishiyakushi
Island Enoshima. The Fuji can be seen far away
Kagehisa and
Yoshitada wrestling
Kagesue, Takatsuna and Shigetada crossing the Uji river
Kaji of Gion
holding a fan
Kajiwara Genda Kagesue for Umegae
Kamigashihime stabbing a giant spider
Kansaki Yagoro Noriyasu seen behind a transparent screen
Keyamura
Rokusuke under the Hikosan Gongen waterfall
Koga Saburo, suspendeding a basket, watching a dragon
Konseimao
hanzui beset by demons
Koteiken
Kotenrai Ryioshin loading a connon
Kuzunoha
Kyumonryu Shinshin and Chokanko Chintasu
Kyusenpo Sacucho charging throught the snow on a black stallion
Lacquered
boxes against rain
Lady Kayo
Legend, The great ships full of boys and girls sent in search of the immortal
medicine Li
Hayata Hironao grappling with the monster
Lightning
emanation from the great tree that Kawabe no Omi is about to fell for Prince
Shôtoku
Lingering snow at Ishiyama
Lobster
Man on a boat

Minamoto Yorimitsu also known as Raiko


Minamoto Yoshiie at the Nakoso barrier
Minori - The mortally wounded Taira Tomomori with ahuge anchor
Miyamoto
Musashi killing a giant
Miyamoto Musashi, Edo period
Mongaku doing penace at the Nachi waterfall Mongaku
Shonin
Moon

Moso hunting for bamboo shoots


Mount Fuji

Mountain
Musashi on the back of a whale
Nakamura
New edition of the life of a hundred generals

Nichiren
going into exile on the island of Sado
Nichiren
saved from the executioners sword
Night rain at Narumi
Nine tailed fox Tamamo no Mae, under her beautiful human form (down)
Nissaka Man
receiving a child from a ghost
Nozarashi Gosuke carrying a long sword
Ochanomizu
Octopus, Red Fish
Okabe - The cat witch
Oki no Jiro Hiroari killing a monstrous tengu
One of
the daughters of the dragon king who lives in the bottom of the sea
Oniwakamaru
about to kill the giant carp
Oniwakamaru preparing to kill a giant carp
Onna Gyoja, Japanese actor
Onodera junai Hidetomo shading his eyes
Opening shellfish at Fukagawa
Osho Catches Fish for his Stepmother
Osho catching a carp
Paragons of Filial Piety
People join together to form another person
Pilgrims
at the Roben waterfall Oyama

Pilgrims in the waterfall


Portrait of Chicasei Goyo
Portrait of Daruma
Priest Nichiren praying under the storm
Prince Hanzoku terrorised by a nine, tailed fox
Raiko
tormented by the earth spider
Red Carp under wisteria
Returning boats at Tsukushi
Roshi Ensei lifting a heavy beam
Sailing boat
Saito Oniwakamaru
Saito Toshimoto and a warrior in a underwater struggle
Samurai
and the conquered
Samurai Yazama Kihei Mitsunobu
Sasaki Takatsuna fording the Uji river
Sato Tadanobu, a samurai of the Twelfth Century, Defending Himself with a
Goban, whan Attacked by His Enemies
Satsuma Taira Tadanori for
Suzumushi
Scrbbling on the Storehouse Wall
Sculptor Jingoro surrounded by statues
Self-portrait of the Shunga album
Senkaji Chao wringing out his loincloth
Shakuhachi player
Sharks
Shimamura Danjo Takanori riding the waves on the backs of large crabs
Shoriko kaei
shooting a wild goose
Shutsudoko Doi
Sotoku invoking a thunder storm
Station 38
Station Hodogaya through Hiratsuka
Stingrays
Strings for night firing
Suhara
Suikoden Series
Suikoden Series
Suikoden Series
Suikoden Triptych the Fishermen
Taiba
Taira ghost
Taira Koremochi spies the reflection of a female demon
Taira
Koresshige attacked by a demon
Taira Tomomori and a sea dragon
Takagi Toranosuke capturing a kappa underwater in the Tamura river
Takeuchi and the infant emperor
Tamakatzura Tamatori attacked by the octopus
Tamatori being
pursued by a dragon
Tametomo lifting a heavy beam
Tametomo rescued from the sea monster by tengu
Tammeijiro
Genshogo, from Tsuzoku Suikoden Goketsu Hyakuhachinin no Hitori
Tamomori tied to a huge anchor ready to cast himself into the sea

Tengu
Tenjiku Tokubei riding a giant toadn
Thaishun with elephants

The actor
The actor
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The actor Ichumura meeting a cat ghost


The arhat Handaka
The chaste woman of Katsushika
The Chushingura
The Courtesans Usugomo, Haruka, and Yayoi of the Tamaya Teahouse
The death of Nitta Yoshioki at the
Yaguchi ferry
The Dragon Princess
The Famous Unrivalled Hidari Jingoro
The female demon
The female demon
The fifty three stations of the Tokaido
The Ghost in the Lantern
The ghost of Taira Tomomori

The Ghosts
The Ghosts of Togo and His Wife
The Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
The Hundred and
Eight Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
The Hundred
and Eight Heroes of the Popular Suikoden
The kins
at Imado

The last stand of the Kusunoki at Shijonawate


The
Magic Toads

The moonlight fight between Yoshitsune and Benkei on the Gojobashi


The poet
Dainagon sees an apparition
The poet Yacuren and a companion strolling in a grove of trees
The poetess
Ukon
The prince Morinaga is visited by the murderer Fuchibe Yoshihiro while reading
the lotus sutra in his cave
The sailor Tokuso
and the sea monster
The seven gods of good fortune
The Soga brothers practising swordstrokes on a heap of snow
The station
Kambara
The suicide of Morozumi Masakiyo
The sumo wrestler
The sumo wrestler
The young Benkei holding a pole
Tiger
Tiger
Toki Jurozaemon Mitsuchika
Tokiwa Gozen in the snow
Tomimori Sukeemon Masakat dodging a brazier
Tominomori
Tominomori
Tsuchigumo
Tsuchiyama
Turtle and crab
Twenty four Paragons of Filial Piety of Our Country
Two
Kamuro waiting for a courtesan
Two opponents in underwater fight
Uchiwakamaru fighting Benkei on Gojo bridge
Uneme is
exorcising the monstrous serpent from the lake
Uoya Danshichi
Kurobel pouring a bucket of water over himself
Urawa
Vesper bell at Todaiji
View of Mt. Fuji
View of Mt. Fuji
View of Mt. Fuji
View of Mt. Fuji
View of Mt. Fuji
Watanabe Tsuna fighting the demon at the Rashomon
Woman
Woman catching firefly by a stream
Woman doing her laundry in the river
Woman in a boat on the Sumida river
Woman making a wig

Woman mending a fish net


Woman mending a fish net

Woman Samurai
Woman seated under a cherry blossoms
Woman selling decorative bowls

Woman under a cherry tree


Woman under a cherry tree

Woman walkin throught a noren


Woman with fan
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women

Women
Women

Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women

Women
Women

Women
Women
Women
Women
Women
Women walking in the snow
Wrestling
Yada Gorosaemon
Yamabe no Akahito
Yamamoto Kansuke
Yamamoto Kansuke fighting a giant boar
Yamamoto Takeru no Mikoto between burning grass
Yoko
protecting his father from a tiger
Young Emperor
Yui - Girl with fishing net

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