Jukōdō Yoshikuni (寿好堂よし国) (artist )
Toyokawa (family name - 豊川)Takagi (original family name - 喬木)
Ashimaro (go - 芦麿 - 1813-14)
Ashimaru (go - 芦丸 - in 1816)
Jukōdō (go - 寿好堂)
Ko Yoshikuni (go - 高よし国)
Kōjōdō (go - 岡丈堂)
Jukō (壽公 - an early name from ca. 1800)
Jukō (壽好 - in 1813)
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Biography:
He was active from ca. 1803-40.
"Yoshikuni was a follower of Asayama Shikuni. Yoshikuni is representative of the Osaka literati (bunjin, suijin), active in various arts. He is thought to have been actie as a poet both before and after his period of yakusha-e production . He was the leader of a haikai poetry circle (Jukōsha); manyu of its members were also known as print designers (e.g., Umekuni, Toshikuni, Fujikuni, Hikokuni, Kishikuni, Shibakuni, Asakuni). He was furthermore a master of bunraku chanting. Unlike his contemporary Shunkōsai Hokushū, no paintings or book illustrations by Yoshikuni are known."
From The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints.
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Roberts' Dictionary of Japanese Artists,,,: Born and worked in Osaka, printmaker and poet. Pupil of Asayama Ashikuni and known for actor prints. Artistic names/signatures (gō) include: Ashimaro, Yoshimaro, Ashimaru, Jukōdō, Kō Yoshikuni, and Kōjōdō.
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Roger Keyes noted on page 278 in The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1973, that Yoshikuni was active in 1800 (?) and from 1813-30/31. His name was changed to Yoshikuni from Ashimaru, as per the information found on a print dated to 3/1816.
On page 252 Keyes wrote: "Yoshikuni was active as a print designer between 1813 and 1830, but is equally important as a poet. He may have been the son of Hakuensai Baikō, the late eighteenth century Osaka poet who was the proprietor of the publishing firm Shioya Saburobei. Yoshikuni may begun his career in 1800 with a poetry anthology, and could have designed two or three prints that appeared with the signature Jukō in 1813. Although his career as a print designer ended around 1832, he seems to have continued his activity as a poet, leading the Jukōsha poetry group whose members designed actor prints... Some of his poems appear in Akatsuki no Kanenari's unpublished mid-nineteenth-century manuscript on Osaka geography and history which is printed in Naniwa Sōsho, volumes 7 and 8."
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Yoshikuni's prints are included in many prominent collections: the Harvard Art Museums; the Náprstek Museum; the Walters Art Museum; the British Museum; the National Gallery in Prague; the Tokyo Metropolitan Library; the Hermitage Museum; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; Ritsumeikan University; Waseda University; the National Museum of Japanese History; the Van Gogh Museum; the musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire; the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen; the Museum of Oriental Arts, Venice; et al.