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Kitao Masayoshi

Kitao Masayoshi
The Yodo River (Yodogawa) cut from a page of the book Sansui ryakuga shiki (Landscape Sketches)
Kitao Masayoshi
Act III (Sandanme) from the series Perspective Pictures of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers a Primer (Uki-e Kanadehon Chushingura)
Kitao Masayoshi
Street Scene at New Year from the album Spring in the Four Directions (Yomo no haru)
Kitao Masayoshi
The Battle of Yashima
Kitao Masayoshi
The Battle of Ichinotani
Kitao Masayoshi
Gray Starling (Hakuto-o) in Loquat Tree reprinted from the album Kaihaku raikin zui (A Compendium of Pictures of Birds Imported from Overseas)
Kitao Masayoshi
Act IX (Kudanme) from the series Perspective Pictures of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers a Primer (Uki-e Kanadehon Chushingura)
Kitao Masayoshi
Tomoe Gozen
Kitao Masayoshi
Act II (Nidanme) from the series Perspective Pictures of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers a Primer (Uki-e Kanadehon Chushingura)
Kitao Masayoshi
Act X (Judanme) from the series Perspective Pictures of the Storehouse of Loyal Retainers a Primer (Uki-e Kanadehon Chushingura)

Kitao Masayoshi (Masayoshi Kitao, first year of Meiwa <1764> --March 22, 1824 ) is an ukiyo-e artist in the middle of the Edo period. It is also known as Kuwagata Keisai. At that time, he was a painter who was so highly evaluated that he said, "I hate Hokusai and like Hokusai."

A student of Shigemasa Kitao. The surname is Akabane, commonly known as Sanjiro or Sanjiro. He was called Sanko, and his father was a tatami mat craftsman, so he was called "Three Ducal Ministers of Tatami" by his friends along with the popular name. The Sugi Sakai issue is associated with this and the fact that the residence was on Sugimori Shindo in Horidome (currently 1-chome, Nihonbashi Horidome-cho, Chuo-ku). The name of the kyoka is Yuru Mugisoba, and the name of the play is Meteorological Tensho.

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