Utagawa Yoshiiku

Signatures of Utagawa Yoshiiku reading from left to right: “Chōkarō Yoshiiku ga” (朝霞楼　芳幾　画), “Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga” (一恵斎　芳幾　画), and “Ikkunsai Yoshiiku ga” (一薫斎　芳幾　画)

Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川 芳幾, 1833 - February 6, 1904), also known as or Ochiai Yoshiiku (落合 芳幾), was a Japanese artist of the Utagawa school.

Early life

Yoshiiku was the son of a teahouse proprietor and became a student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

Career

Yoshiiku is known as a ukiyo-e print designer and as a newspaper illustrator.

He was a co-founder of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun, an illustrated daily hiragana newspaper in 1874.

Prints

Yoshiiku's works include the print Kokkei Wanisshi-ki (滑稽倭日史記) "Comical Record of Japanese History"), which employs the traditional theme of Hyakki Yakō on contemporary Japanese military actions in China.

Gallery

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  Sino-Japanese War, Butterfly and Praying Mantis, 1895
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  A female rain spirit (Hyakumonogatari Ameonna), 1890
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  Portraits as True Likeness in the Moonlight (Makoto no Tsukihana no Sugata-e), c. 1845-1865. Woodblock print, 35.1 × 23 cm (13.82 × 9.06 in)

See also

• Schools of ukiyo-e artists
• List of ukiyo-e terms

References

• Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10-ISBN 0192114476/13-ISBN 9780192114471; OCLC 5246796
• Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei. 10-ISBN 9074822657/13-ISBN 9789074822657; OCLC 61666175
• Roberts, Laurance P. (1976). A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. New York: Weatherhill. 10-ISBN 0834801132/13-ISBN 9780834801134; OCLC 2005932

External links

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: digitized images
• Indianapolis Museum of Art: digitized image
• Brooklyn Museum: digitized images
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art: digitized images