Yoshu Chikanobu

Toyohara Chikanobu (August 8, 1838 --September 29, 1912>) is an ukiyo-e artist from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. The drawing period lasted for about 45 years from around Bunkyu to around 1907, despite the turmoil of the turbulent period at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Toyokuni Utagawa III, and Kunichi Toyohara. His surname is Hashimoto, his common name is Sakutaro, and his name is Naoyoshi. They are called Yangshu, Yangshusai, and Ichizurusai.

Born as the eldest son of the Takada Domain in Echigo Province (currently Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture), Yahachiro Hashimoto, a low-ranking feudal lord of Edo. However, it is unknown whether the birthplace is Takada or Edo. Yahachiro served as the middle head and also served as a sword. According to the record of Bunkyu 2 (1862), the 25-year-old Zhou Nobu is also in the position of "with a book" (10 stones of family, 2 people, 3 pieces of high silver). He hated photography because he had smallpox and had a pockmarked face when he was young, and he said he had no photographs when he died.

It seems that he learned the Kano school when he was a child, but after that he turned to Ukiyo-e and became a student of Keisai Eisen (who is unknown). Call himself (2nd generation) (signed works are unconfirmed). In the first year of Bunkyu (1861), when Kuniyoshi died, he became the third generation Toyokuni, and became the second generation Utagawa Yoshitsuru and Ichizuru Sai Yoshitsuru as ukiyo-e artists. Furthermore, when Toyokuni died in December of the first year of the Genji era (1864), he changed to Toyohara Kunichi, who was under the control of Toyokuni, and was called Kunichibu.

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