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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Kuniyoshi Utagawa (Kuniyoshi Utagawa, November 15, 1798 (January 1, 1798)-March 5, 1861 (April 14, 1861)) is an ukiyo-e artist at the end of the Edo period.

The painting was called Kuniyoshi Ichiyusai from the first year of Bunsei to the first year of Man'en, and later called Saihosha (mid-Bunsei), Asasakuraro (first year of Tenpo to the first year of Man'en), Yukitani, and Senshin. In honor of Utagawa, Yanagiyan is used for the Kyoka issue, and Ichimyo Kaijo is used for the hidden issue. One of the leading ukiyo-e artists of the late Edo period, he has a wealth of ideas, innovative design power, strange ideas, and reliable drawing power, and has many works with a wide range of charm that goes beyond the frame of ukiyo-e. Produced.

Born in 1798 in Kansei 9 (1798) in 1-chome, Honshirogane-cho, Nihonbashi, Edo (currently 4-chome, Honshirogane-cho, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo). My father is Kichiemon Yanagiya, who runs a Kyokonya (dyeing shop). The childhood name is Yoshisaburo Igusa. Later Sonsaburo. Hiroshige Utagawa, who is internationally famous for landscape prints, was born in the same year and was active in the same period. Lives in Mukaishima in the middle of the year.

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