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Utagawa Shigekiyo

Utagawa Shigekiyo (birth and death unknown) is an ukiyo-e artist from the Edo period to the Meiji period.

Hiroshige Utagawa's master. His real surname is Nozawa and his first name is Sadakichi. They are called Ichieisai, Eisai, and Rakusai. During the drawing period, from Ansei to the Meiji era, although there were few works in the late Tokugawa period, he mainly painted bird-and-flower paintings and samurai paintings. Although the drawing was suspended for a while, he has been drawing kaika-e under the influence of Hiroshige III under his real name, Sadakichi Nozawa, since 1882, and has been active until around 1887. There is. The Yokohama-e "Yokohama Traffic", which depicts foreign customs on a long and narrow screen that connects two half-cut widths, is unique.

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