Utagawa Yoshitomi

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

A student of Kuniyoshi Utagawa. His real surname is Hagiwara. At first, it was called Ichigesai, and from the first year of the Meiji era (1868), it was called Hoshu and Shinsai. The drawing period was from Kaei to 1880, and it is said that he moved to Yokohama after 1873, but before that, he painted many Yokohama paintings even before Man'en and Bunkyu. I'm drawing. He is also known for drawing the death picture of his teacher Kuniyoshi, who died in the first year of Bunkyu (1861). In Hoshu's seal, he painted genre paintings and historical paintings, and in the Meiji era, he was called Hagiwara Yoshishu and worked on Yokohama-e paintings and illustrations for Eiri Shimbun. There are Eishu and Utagawa Shuusei as students.

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