List of Famous people named Utagawa

Here are some famous Utagawas:

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Kuniyoshi
Died on April 14, 1861
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Utagawa Kuniyoshi was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. He was a member of the Utagawa school.

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Utagawa Yoshiiku

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Yoshiiku
Born on January 1, 1833
Died on February 6, 1904 (aged 71)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Utagawa Yoshiiku , also known as or Ochiai Yoshiiku , was a Japanese artist of the Utagawa school.

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Utagawa Yoshitora

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Yoshitora
Born on November 30, 1835
Died on January 1, 1900 (aged 64)
Born in Japan

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 the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreigners (Yokohama-e). He may not have seen any of the foreign scenes he depicted.

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Utagawa Kunisada III

First Name Utagawa
Last Name III
Born on January 1, 1848
Died on October 26, 1920 (aged 72)

Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞) (1848–1920) 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.

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Utagawa Kunisada

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Kunisada
Born on January 1, 1786
Died on January 12, 1865 (aged 79)

Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, was the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

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Utagawa Toyoharu

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Toyoharu
Born on January 1, 1735
Died on January 1, 1814 (aged 79)

Utagawa Toyoharu was a Japanese artist in the ukiyo-e genre, known as the founder of the Utagawa school and for his uki-e pictures that incorporated Western-style geometrical perspective to create a sense of depth.

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Utagawa Kuninao

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Kuninao
Born on January 1, 1793
Died on January 1, 1854 (aged 61)
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Utagawa Toyokuni II

First Name Utagawa
Last Name II
Born on January 1, 1777
Died on January 1, 1835 (aged 58)

Utagawa Toyokuni II (1777–1835), 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 (豊重) until 1826, the year after his teacher’s death, when the family gave him the right to use his teacher's name and he began signing his work Toyokuni (豊国). In 1835 he died, and in 1844 the family persuaded Kunisada, the most famous student of Toyokuni I, to use the name "Toyokuni" and become leader of the school. Although Kunisada never recognised Toyoshige's right to the name Toyokuni, nevertheless Kunisada after 1844 is always referred to as Toyokuni III.

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Utagawa Kunimasu

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Kunimasu

Utagawa Kunimasu was a designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in Osaka who was active during the late Edo period. He was a leading producer of kamigata-e, prints from the Osaka and Kyoto areas. He is also known as Sadamasu [貞升], the artist name he used prior to Kunimasu.

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Utagawa Kunimasa

First Name Utagawa
Last Name Kunimasa
Born on January 1, 1773
Died on January 1, 1810 (aged 37)

Utagawa Kunimasa was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Utagawa school. He was originally from Aizu in Iwashiro Province and first worked in a dye shop after arriving in Edo. It was there that he was noticed by Utagawa Toyokuni, to whom he became apprenticed.

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