Schools of ukiyo-e artists - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Ukiyo-e

' is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters...

artists may be organized into schools

Art movement

An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years...

, which consist of a founding artist and those artists who were taught by or strongly influenced by him. Artists of the Osaka school are united both stylistically and geographically. Not all of these artists designed woodblock prints

Woodblock printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper....

, and some ukiyo-e artists had more than one teacher, and others are not known to be associated with any particular school.

Asayama school (in Osaka

Osaka

is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

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Asayama Ashikuni (founder)

Ashisato

Ashifune

Ashihiro

Ashikiyo

Asayama Ashitaka

Asayama Ashitomo

Gigadō Ashiyuki

Gigado Ashiyuki

Gigadō Ashiyuki was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka, who was active from about 1813 to 1833. He was a pupil of Asayama Ashikuni, and was also a haiku poet...

(Nagakuni)

Jukōdō Yoshilkuni

Eishi school (also known as Hosoda school)

Chōbunsai Eishi (founder)

Ichirakute Eisui

Chōkōsai Eishō

Chōkyōsai Eiri

Gessai Gabimaru

Chōensai Eishin

Rekisentei Eiri

Harukawa Eizan

was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints who was active in the 1790s. He is believed to have been a student of Chōbunsai Eishi, and was the teacher of Harukawa Goshichi....

Furuyama school

Furuyama Moroshige (founder)

Furuyama Moromasa

Furuyama Morotane

Furuyama Morotsugu

Harukawa Eizan school

Harukawa Eizan

was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints who was active in the 1790s. He is believed to have been a student of Chōbunsai Eishi, and was the teacher of Harukawa Goshichi....

(founder)

Harukawa Goshichi

Harukawa Eichō

Harunobu school

Suzuki Harunobu

was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of...

(founder)

Isoda Koryūsai

Shiba Kōkan (Suzuki Harushige)

Yasunobu

Komai Yoshinobu

Suzuki Haruji

Masunobu

Mitsunobu

Naka Kuninobu

Morino Sōgyoku

Ueno Shōha

Hasegawa school (in Osaka

Osaka

)

Hasegawa Sadanobu I (founder)

Hasegawa Sadanobu II

Hasegawa Settan

Hasegawa Settei

Hishikawa school (also known as the Moronobu school)

Hishikawa Moronobu

was a Japanese painter and printmaker known for his advancement of the ukiyo-e woodcut style starting in the 1670s.-Early life and training:Moronobu was the son of a well-respected dyer and a gold and silver-thread embroiderer in the village of Hodamura, Awa Province, near Edo Bay. After moving to...

(founder)

Hishikawa Morofusa

Hishikawa Moroyoshi

Hishikawa Moronaga

Hishikawa Moroshige

Hishikawa Morohira

Tamazaki Ryūjo

Hokusai school

Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai

was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting...

(Shunrō, Sōri, Taitō)

Katsushika ōi

Yanagawa Shigenobu

was a Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style. He was active in Edo from the Bunka period onward. His Osaka period dated from 1822 to 1825. In Edo, he resided in Honjo Yanagawa-chō district. He was first the pupil, then son-in-law, and finally adopted son of the Edo master printmaker Katsushika...

Yanagawa Nobusada

Yanagawa Nobusada was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1822 to 1832. His teacher, Yanagawa Shigenobu, gave him the name Yanagawa Yukinobu. A print from 1823 records the latter’s name change from Yukinobu to Nobusada .-References:* Keyes, Roger S...

(Yanagawa Yukinobu)

Hishikawa Sōri

Katsushika Hokumei

Teisai Hokuba

Maki Bokusen

Numata Gessai

Shōtei Hokuju

Totoya Hokkei

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

Hōtei Gosei

Katsushika Hokuun

Katsushika Taito II

Katsushika Isai

Katsushika Hokui

Enkōan

Ippitsusai Bunchō school

Ippitsusai Bunchō (founder)

Tsumuri no Hikaru

Tamagawa Shūchō

Ishikawa Toyonobu school

Ishikawa Toyonobu (founder)

Ishikawa Toyomasa

Kaigetsudō school

Kaigetsudo school

The Kaigetsudō school was a school of ukiyo-e painting and printmaking founded in Edo around 1700-1714. It is often said that the various Kaigetsudō artists' styles are so similar, many scholars find it nearly impossible to differentiate them; thus, many Kaigetsudō paintings are attributed to the...

Kaigetsudō Ando

Kaigetsudo Ando

Kaigetsudō Ando , also known as Ando Yasunori, was a Japanese painter, and the founder of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e. Though very influential and prolific, it is quite probable that many of the works attributed to him were actually painted by his disciples...

(founder)

Kaigetsudō Anchi

Kaigetsudo Anchi

Kaigetsudō Anchi was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e art. He was the student, and likely the son of the school's founder, Kaigetsudō Ando....

Kaigetsudō Dohan

Kaigetsudō Doshin

Kaigetsudō Doshu

Kaigetsudō Doshū

Hasegawa Eishun

Baioken Eishun

was a Japanese painter and print artist of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e art. He is also alternatively known as , Baiōken Nagaharu, Takeda Harunobu and a number of other art-names...

(Baiōken Eishun)

Matsuno Chikanobu

Matsuno Chikanobu was a Japanese painter of the Kaigetsudō school of ukiyo-e. Believed to be one of the most popular painters of his time, his work, very much in the Kaigetsudō style, consists largely of bijinga and features bright colors and exquisite kimono fashions.He is believed to have...

Katsukawa school

The Katsukawa school was a school of Japanese ukiyo-e art, founded by Miyagawa Shunsui. It specialized in paintings and prints of kabuki actors , sumo wrestlers, and beautiful women ....

(also known as the Shunshō school)

Katsukawa Shunshō

Katsukawa Shunsho

was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, and the leading artist of the Katsukawa school. Shunshō studied under Miyagawa Shunsui, son and student of Miyagawa Chōshun, both equally famous and talented ukiyo-e artists. Shunshō is most well known for introducing a new form of...

(founder)

Koikawa Harumachi I

Katsukawa Shunrō

Katsukawa Shun’ei

Katsukawa Shuntei

Katsukawa Shun’en

Katsukawa Shundō II

Katsukawa Shunrin

Katsukawa Shōju

Katsukawa Shundō

Katsukawa Shunzan

Katsukawa Shunjō

Katsukawa Shunsen

, who is also known as Shunkō II, was a designer of books and ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He was born in 1762 and designed prints from about 1805 to about 1821. He initially studied with the Rimpa school artist Tsutsumi Tōrin III. In 1806 or 1807, Shunsen became a student of...

(Katsukawa Shunkō II)

Katsukawa Shunchō

Katsukawa Shuncho

was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints, who was active from about 1783 to about 1795.Although a student of Katsukawa Shunshō, Shunchō's output, which consists mostly of prints of beautiful women, more closely resembles the work of Torii Kiyonaga.Shunchō also designed...

Katsukawa Shunkō I

Katsukawa Shunko I

was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Edo . He was a student of Katsukawa Shunshō, and is generally credited with designing the first large head actor portraits . Like his teacher, Shunkō used a jar-shaped seal and was known as Kotsubo...

Katsukawa Shungyō

Tamagawa Shunsui

Kinchōdō Sekiga

Katsukawa Shunri

Katsukawa Shunwa

Keisai Eisen school

Keisai Eisen

Keisai Eisen was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijinga . His best works, including his ōkubi-e , are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era...

(founder)

Isono Bunsai

Yamatoya Sada

Teisai Senchō

Senshōtei Toyotsuru

Kitagawa school (also known as Utamaro school)

Kitagawa Utamaro (founder)

Kitagawa Utamaro II

Maki Bokusen

Kitagawa Chiyojo

Kitagawa Fujimaro

Kitagawa Tsukimaro

Chōchōdō Kagenori

Kitagawa Yukimaro

Kitagawa Shikimaro

Kitagawa Yoshimaro

Eishōsai Chōki

Eishosai Choki

Eishôsai Chōki, also known as Momokawa Chōki, was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints who was active from about 1786 to 1808. He, along with Utamaro, was a pupil of Toriyami Sekien...

Kitagawa Hidemaro

Juka Sekijō

Soraku

Michimaro

Chikanobu

Bunrō

Isomaro

Hishikawa Ryūkoku

Rakumaro

Minemaro

Senman

Kitao school (also known as the Shigemasa school)

Kitao Shigemasa

was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist from Edo. He was one of the leading printmakers of his day, but his works have been slightly obscure. He is noted for paintings of geisha. He was taught by Shigenaga and has been referred to as "a chameleon" who adopted to changing styles. He was less active after the...

(founder)

Kitao Shigemasa II

Kubo Shunman

Kitao Masanobu

Kitao Masayoshi

Koikawa school

Koikawa Harumachi I (founder)

Koikawa Harumachi II

Koikawa Harumasa

Koikawa Hakuga

Kondō school

Kondō Kiyoharu (founder)

Kondō Kiyonobu

Kondō Katsunobu

Miyagawa school

Miyagawa Chōshun

Miyagawa Choshun

was a Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style. Founder of the Miyagawa school, he and his pupils are among the few ukiyo-e artists to have never created woodblock prints. He was born in Miyagawa, in Owari province, but lived much of his later life in Edo, where he died...

(founder)

Miyagawa Isshō

Miyagawa Issho

Miyagawa Isshō was a Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style, primarily depicting kabuki actors, geisha, sumo wrestlers, and other elements of everyday urban culture. He was a pupil of Miyagawa Chōshun , who, in turn, was influenced by the works of Hishikawa Moronobu...

Miyagawa Chōki

Miyagawa Shunsui

"Shunsui" redirects here. For the 19th c. doban artist, see Yomo Shunsui; for the writer, see Tamenaga Shunsui; for the anime character, see Shunsui Kyōraku....

Nishikawa school (also known as the Sukenobu school)

Nishikawa Sukenobu (founder)

Nishikawa Suketada

Kawashima Nobukiyo

Nishikawa Terunobu

Takagi Sadatake

Nishimura school (also known as the Shigenaga school)

Nishimura Shigenaga (founder)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

Nishimura Shigenobu

Suzuki Harunobu

Yamamoto Fujinobu

Tomikawa Fusanobu

Yamamoto Yoshinobu

Hirose Shigenobu

Okumura school (also known as the Masanobu school)

Okumura Masanobu

was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijinga...

(founder)

Okumura Nobufusa

Okumura Toshinobu

Tanaka Masunobu

Mangetsudō

Ōoka school (in Osaka

Osaka

)

Ōoka Shunboku (founder)

Takehara Shunchōsai

Osaka school

Ryūkōsai Jokei

Ryukosai Jokei

Ryūkōsai Jokei was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints, painter, and illustrator in Osaka, who was active from about 1777 to 1809. He was a student of Shitomi Kangetsu , who in turn was the son and pupil of Tsukioka Settei . Ryūkōsai is considered to be either the founder or...

(founder)

Shōkōsai Hanbei

Shunkōsai Hokushū

Shunkosai Hokushu

Shunkōsai Hokushū , who is also known as Shunkō IV, was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1802 to 1832....

(Shunkō IV)

Ashikuni

Ashiyuki (Nagakuni)

Enjaku

Yoshida Hanbei

Yoshida Hanbei was a late 17th century Japanese illustrator in the ukiyo-e style, the leading illustrator in Kyoto and Osaka around 1664-1689. Unlike many more famous ukiyo-e artists, who worked primarily on individual woodblock prints and paintings, Hanbei worked primarily, if not exclusively, in...

Hikokuni

Hironobu

Hirosada I

Hirosada II

Hirosada II, also known as Sadahiro II, was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka. He was a student of Konishi Hirosada, and assumed the name “Hirosada” in 1853, when his teacher ceased designing prints...

Shunbaisai Hokuei

Shunbaisai Hokuei , who is also known as Shunkō III, was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1824 to 1837. He was a student of Shunkōsai Hokushū. Hokuei’s prints most often portray the kabuki actor Arashi Rikan II, and the quality of these...

(Shunkō III)

Hokumyō

Kagematsu

Kikyo

Kiyosada

Kunihiro

Kunikazu

Kunimasu (Sadamasu)

Kunishige

Mitsukuni

Munehiro

Nagahide

Urakusai Nagahide

Urakusai Nagahide , was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints who was active from about 1804 to about 1848. He is also known as Yūrakusai Nagahide , Nakamura Nagahide , Chōshū , and as Chōshūsai . “Nagahide” and “Chōshū” are written with the same kanji...

Nobukatsu

Yanagawa Nobusada

Sadahiro I

Sadahiro II

Sadanobu I

Sadanobu II

Sadayoshi

Shigefusa

Shigeharu

Shigenobu

Shunkyō

Shunshi

Gatoken Shunshi

Gatōken Shunshi was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1820 to 1828. He was a student of Shunkōsai Hokushū and the teacher of Gakōken Shunshi...

Shunshō

Shûshō

Tokusai

Toyohide

Utakuni

Yoshifune

Yoshikuni I

Yoshikuni II

Yoshitaki

Yoshiume

Yoshiyuki

Ryūkōsai school (in Osaka

Osaka

)

Ryūkōsai Jokei

Ryukosai Jokei

(founder)

Shōkōsai Hanbei

Urakusai Nagahide

Shigenobu school

Yanagawa Shigenobu I (founder)

Yanagawa Shigenobu II

Tōrōsai Shigemitsu

Shunkōsai Fukushū school (in Osaka

Osaka

)

Shunkōsai Fukushū (founder)

Shunshosai Hokuchō

Gatōken Shunshi

Gatoken Shunshi

Gatōken Shunshi was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1820 to 1828. He was a student of Shunkōsai Hokushū and the teacher of Gakōken Shunshi...

Shunbaisai Hokuei

(Shunkō III)

Seiyōsai Shunshi

Torii school

This article is about a school of ukiyo-e art; for the sculpture style, see Tori style. For the Torii samurai clan, see Torii family.The Torii school was a school of ukiyo-e painting and printing founded in Edo...

Torii Kiyomoto

was a kabuki actor from Osaka and painter of billboards and other kabuki advertisements; the founder of the Torii school of artists, he painted in what would come to be known as an early form of the ukiyo-e style. Onstage, he went by the name Torii Shōshichi....

(founder)

Torii Kiyonobu I

was a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, who is renowned for his work on Kabuki signboards and related materials. Along with his father Torii Kiyomoto, he is said to have been one of the founders of the Torii school of painting....

(co-founder)

Torii Kiyonobu II

Torii Kiyomasu I

Torii Kiyomasu II

was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and woodblock printmaker of the Torii school, a specialist, like the rest of the Torii artists, in billboards and other images for the promotion of the kabuki theatres...

Torii Kiyomitsu I

Torii Kiyotsune

Torii Kiyohiro

Torii Kiyosato

Torii Kiyonaga

This article is about the ukiyo-e artist; for samurai named Kiyonaga, see Naito Kiyonaga and Koriki Kiyonaga. was a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Torii school. Originally Sekiguchi Shinsuke, the son of an Edo bookseller, he took on Torii Kiyonaga as an art-name...

Torii Kiyomasa I

Torii Kiyomine I

Hanegawa Chinchō

Kondō Kiyoharu

Torii Kiyotada

Katsukawa Terushige

Torii Kiyotomo

Torii Kiyoshige I

Torii Kotondo

Toyohara school

Toyohara Kunichika (founder)

Yōshū Chikanobu (Toyohara Chikanobu)

Watanabe Nobukazu

Toyohara Chikaharu

Morikawa Chikashige

Toyohara Chikayoshi

Toyohara Chikasato

Utagawa school

The was a group of Japanese woodblock print artists, founded by Toyoharu. His pupil, Toyokuni I, took over after Toyoharu's death and raised the group to become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century....

Utagawa Toyoharu (founder)

Utagawa Toyohiro

Utagawa Hirochika II

Utagawa Toyokuni I

Utagawa Kunimasa

was a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and student of Utagawa Toyokuni. Originally from Aizu in Iwashiro province, he first worked in a dye shop upon arriving in Edo...

Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)

Utagawa Kunisada II

Utagawa Kunisada II was a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker, one of three to take the name "Utagawa Kunisada."A pupil of Utagawa Kunisada I, he signed much of his early work "Baidō Kunimasa III." He took the name Kunisada after marrying his master's eldest daughter in 1846. He changed his name once more...

Utagawa Kunisada III

Utagawa Kunisada III was an ukiyo-e printmaker of the Utagawa school, specializing in yakusha-e . He began studying under Utagawa Kunisada I at the age of 10, and continued under Kunisada II after their master's death.He originally signed his prints "Kunimasa" or "Baidō Kunimasa"...

Utagawa Sadahide

Utagawa Sadakage

Utagawa Sadafusa

Utagawa Fusatane

Utagawa Sadahiro

Utagawa Kuniteru II

Utagawa Kunimasu I (Sadamasu)

Utagawa Sadayoshi

Utagawa Kunihisa II

Utagawa Kunichika

Utagawa Kuniaki I

Utagawa Kuniaki II

Utagawa Kunimasa IV

Utagawa Kokunimasa

Utagawa Kunisato

Utagawa Kunitoshi

Utagawa Toyokuni II

Utagawa Toyokuni II , also known as Toyoshige, was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Edo. He was the pupil, son-in-law and adopted son of Toyokuni I. The former used the name Toyoshige until 1826, the year after his teacher’s death, when he began signing his work Toyokuni...

(Toyoshige)

Utagawa Kunitsuru

Utagawa Kunimatsu

Utagawa Kuniteru III

Utagawa Kunimaru

Utagawa Kuniyasu

Utagawa Kuninao

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Utagawa Yoshimune

Utagawa Yoshiume

Utagawa Yoshitsuya

, also known as Kōko Yoshitsuya and as Ichieisai Yoshitsuya , was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints.Yoshitsuya was a student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and, like his teacher, is best known for his woodblock prints of warriors. Yoshitsuya also produced many advertisements and designs for...

Utagawa Yoshifuji

Utagawa Yoshiharu

Utagawa Yoshitoyo

Utagawa Yoshimori

Utagawa Yoshimasa

Utagawa Yoshitora

was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo , but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. He was an important pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of...

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Kawanabe Kyosai

was a Japanese artist, in the words of a critic, "an individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional Japanese painting"....

Hayakawa Shōzan

Utagawa Yoshiiku

, also known as or , 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....

Kobayashi Ikuhide

Utagawa Yoshitama

Utagawa Yoshifusa

Utagawa Yoshitoshi

Utagawa Yoshikata

Utagawa Yoshikatsu

Utagawa Yoshijo

Utagawa Yoshinobu

Utagawa Yoshitorijo

Utagawa Yoshitsuna

Utagawa Yoshitsuru

Utagawa Yoshikazu

Utagawa Yoshitomi

Utagawa Kunikiyo

Utagawa Kunihisa

Utagawa Kunitora

Utagawa Kuniteru I

Utagawa Kunihiro

Ryūsai Shigeharu

Utagawa Kunikage

Utagawa Kuninaga

Utagawa Hiroshige (Andō Hiroshige)

Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

Utagawa Hiroshige III

Risshō II

Shōsai Ikkei

Utagawa Shigemaru

Utagawa Shigekiyo

Utagawa Hirokage

, also known as Ichiyusai Hirokage, was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, who was active from about 1855 to 1865. He was a pupil of Utagawa Hiroshige I. From 1860 to 1861, Hirokage designed the series of ōban size prints titled Edo meisho dōke zukushi...

Artists not associated with a particular school

Art movement

Kanbun Master

The Kanbun Master was a Japanese woodblock print artist and mentor to Hishikawa Moronobu, who is generally considered to have founded the genre known as ukiyo-e...

Sharaku

is widely considered to be one of the great masters of the woodblock printing in Japan. Little is known of him, besides his ukiyo-e prints; neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known with any certainty...

Sawa Sekkyō

Sawa Sekkyo

Sawa Sekkyō was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was originally a pupil of Tsutsumi Tōrin, a painter of the Kanō school, but left the school and became an independent ukiyo-e artist...

Setsuri

Toriyama Sekien

thumb|200px| was an 18th century scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore. He was the teacher of Utamaro and, before taking up printmaking, a painter of the Kanō school. Toriyama is most famous for his attempt to catalogue all species of yōkai in the Hyakki Yakō series.-References:...

Ogata Gekkō

Ogata Gekko

was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist of the ukiyo-e genre.Gekkō's work was originally closely based upon that of Kikuchi Yōsai; an he was inspired by Hokusai, creating a series of one hundred prints of Mount Fuji...

Sugimura Jihei

was a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker who flourished from approximately 1681 to 1703. A follower of Hishikawa Moronobu, Sugimura illustrated at least 70 books, and created a number of large size prints along with many of the more standard sizes and formats....

Kobayashi Kiyochika

was a Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Meiji period.Kiyochika is best known for his prints of scenes around Tokyo which reflect the transformations of modernity. He has been described as "the last important ukiyo-e master and the first noteworthy print artist of modern Japan.....

Kikukawa Eizan

was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He first studied with his father, Eiji, a minor painter of the Kanō school. He then studied with Suzuki Nanrei , an artist of the Shijō school. He is believed to have also studied with the ukiyo-e artist Totoya Hokkei...

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