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Utagawa Yoshimune

Yoshimune Utagawa (14th year of culture <1817> --- April 17, 1880>) is an ukiyo-e artist from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period.

A student of Kuniyoshi Utagawa. His real surname is Kashima and his first name is Matsugoro. It is called Ichimatsusai in honor of Utagawa's painting surname. Born as a child of Edo carpenter Tadazo Hayashi, he himself named Kashima's surname. I live in Edo Ginza 2-chome Iroha Chaya. In the 6th year of Tenpo (1835), he became a 19-year-old student of Kuniyoshi, and during the drawing period, he drew warrior paintings, timely paintings, actor paintings, and beauty paintings. It excels in coloring and colors many of the master's works. The name of Yoshimune is written on the back of Kuniyoshi's votive tablet "Hitotsuya-zu" (dedicated to Sensoji Temple).

His personality was light-hearted, and it was said that he was excommunicated by touching his teacher's anger more than ten times, but each time he returned to Kuniyoshi's permission, the teacher-apprentice relationship continued until Yoshimune's later years. In his later years, his daughter Shimajo sold her as a geisha named Wakanaya Shimaji, so Yoshimune lived on the Kinshun Kaido in Shinbashi as a geisha okiya and became able to live in the left-handed fan. At the end, he accidentally fell into a well and died. Year of enjoyment 64. The graveyard is Ryokan-ji Temple in Nishisugamo, Toshima-ku (currently unrelated), and the legal name is Unjoin Koyo Yoshimune. There are Munemasa, Munehisa, Munesei, Munekane, and Munemasa among the students. He is blessed with 11 children at home, and his youngest child, Shujiro, was introduced to Yoshitoshi Tsukioka and is called Toshiyuki Arai.

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