Kunisada III (三代目 歌川国貞)
Kunisada III (三代目 歌川国貞; 1848 - October 26, 1920) was a ukiyo-e artist of the Utagawa School in the Meiji era. Born in Edo (Tokyo), he trained in his childhood under Kunisada (also known as Toyokuni III, 1786 - 1865), and after his death under Kunisada II (1823 - 1880). Like other members of the Utagawa School, Kunisada III produced prints in a wide range of genres, but he specialized in yakusha-e (portraits of kabuki actors) and views of the modernization of Japan, and especially Tokyo, in the Meiji period. Kunisada III used a variety of pennames throughout his career, including the similar sounding Kunisama (国政).
AKA: 三代目 歌川国貞
Japan's First Railway Line.
新橋鐵道蒸汽車之圖 / 東京銀座煉瓦石繁榮之圖 [View of the Prosperity of Brick and Stone Buildings in Tokyo's Ginza District / View of a Steam Train on the Shimbashi Railway].
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A curious 1873 ukiyo-e triptych produced by Kunisada III depicting the Tokyo-Yokohama steam train and Shimbashi Station, Japan's first modern railway and Tokyo's first train station, respectively. The view also presents the neighborhood of Ginza, rebuilt following a fire the previous year, as a showpiece of modernization by the Meiji government. (more details)