Utagawa Yoshiiku
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, also known as or , was a Japanese artist of the Utagawa school
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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.
on contemporary Japanese military actions in China
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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....
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Early life
Yoshiiku was the son of a teahouse proprietor and became a student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi.Career
Yoshiiku is known as a ukiyo-eUkiyo-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...
print designer and as a newspaper illustrator.
He was a co-founder of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shinbun, an illustrated daily hiragana
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...
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 YakōHyakki Yako
thumb|300px|"Hyakki Yakō" by [[Kawanabe Kyōsai]], collected in [[British Museum]]Hyakki Yakō was a Japanese folk belief. The belief holds that every year yōkai, the Japanese supernatural beings, will take to the streets during summer nights. Anyone who comes across the procession will die, unless...
on contemporary Japanese military actions in China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
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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