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 | | Toyokuni was an eclectic artist and during this period he absorbed many of the drawing styles and personal drawing habits of his fellow Ukiyo-e painters and assimilated these into his own work. |
| | Although he imitated his successful contemporaries, men such as Toyoharu, Shunsho, Kiyonaga, Choki, Eisho and Shunei, changing his style in accordance to popular taste, Toyokuni’s work remains unmistakably his own and often manages to equal, or even to surpass, the original models. |
| | This influence is clear in Toyokuni’s series “Actors on the Stage.” This series, sixty four known prints, illustrated in Ukiyo-e Shuka Tokyo Museum Volume, and the series of okubi-e portraits published a little later, perhaps represent Toyokuni’s greatest achievement. |
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