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, also known as or , was a Japanese artist of the
File:SinoJapaneseWarButterflyand PrayingMantis UtagawaYoshiiku 1895.jpg, Sino-Japanese War, Butterfly and Praying Mantis, 1895
File:Yoshiiku Ameonna.jpg, A female rain spirit (''Hyakumonogatari Ameonna''), 1890
File:Brooklyn Museum - Portraits as True Likeness in the Moonlight (Makoto no Tsukihana no Sugata-e) - Utagawa Yoshiiku.jpg, ''Portraits as True Likeness in the Moonlight'' (''Makoto no Tsukihana no Sugata-e''), c. 1845–1865. Woodblock print,
File:Utagawa Yoshiiku Specter.JPG, ''Specter frightening a young woman'', 1890
File:De zeven geluksgoden bij het kweken van zijderupsen-Rijksmuseum RP-P-1902-A-22835.jpeg, The Seven Gods of Luck in Silkworm Breeding, 1875
File:Mitate Yotaka Kingyo.jpg, 1863
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File:NDL-DC 9369963-107 Utagawa Yoshiiku crd.jpg
File:WUL-bunko30 b0285 今様擬源氏 30.pdf, Imayo Nazorae Genji no. 30 (Contemporary Allusion to the Tale of Genji) 1864
OCLC 5246796
* Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). ''Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints.'' Amsterdam: Hotei.
OCLC 61666175
* Roberts, Laurance P. (1976). ''A Dictionary of Japanese Artists.'' New York: Weatherhill.
OCLC 2005932
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* Brooklyn Museum
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* Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Utagawa, Yoshiiku 1833 births 1904 deaths 19th-century Japanese painters Ukiyo-e artists Yoshiiku
, also known as or , was a Japanese artist of the Utagawa school
The Utagawa school () was one of the main schools of ukiyo-e, founded by Utagawa Toyoharu. It was the largest ukiyo-e school of its period. The main styles were bijin-ga (beautiful women) and uki-e (perspective picture). His pupil, Toyokuni I, to ...
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Life and career
Born the son of teahouse proprietor Asakusa Tamichi in 1833, Yoshiiku became a student ofukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...
artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi ( ja, 歌川 国芳, ; January 1, 1798 – April 14, 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al'' (2005). "Kuniyoshi" in He was a ...
toward the end of the 1840s. His earliest known work dates to 1852 when he provided the backgrounds to some actor prints by his master.
Yoshiiku's earliest works were portraits of actors (yakusha-e
''Yakusha-e'' (役者絵), often referred to as "actor prints" in English, are Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ''ukiyo-e'' style popular through the Edo period (1603–1867) and in ...
), beauties (bijin-ga
is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women () in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre.
Definition
defines as a picture that simply "emphasizes the beauty of women", and the ''Shincho Encyclopedia of W ...
), and warriors (musha-e
Musha-e () is a type a Japanese art that was developed in the late 18th century. It is a genre of the ukiyo-e woodblock printing technique, and represents images of warriors and samurai from Japanese history and mythology.
History
Edo Period ...
). He later followed Kuniyoshi into making satirical and humorous pieces, and became the leading name in the field after Kuniyosh's death in 1861. He illustrated the ''Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.4 ...
'' ("Tokyo Daily News") from 1874 to 1876, and then co-founded the ''Tokyo E-iri Shinbun'' ("Tokyo Illustrated News"). The latter folded in 1889, and Yoshiiku returned to making prints. He struggled during his last years, and his last known print appeared in 1903. His three known students, Ikumura, Ikuei, and Ikumasa, failed to achieve recognition.
Yoshiiku had ten children with his second wife, only one of whom survived childhood. Yoshiiku died at age 71 in a temporary residence on 6 February 1904 in Honjo. He was buried at Anseiji temple in Asakusa and given the posthumous Buddhist name Juzen'in Hōkinikkaku Koji.
Prints
Yoshiiku's works include the print ''Kokkei Wanisshi-ki'' (, "Comical Record of Japanese History"), which employs the traditional theme of ''Hyakki Yagyō
''Hyakki Yagyō'' (, "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons"), also transliterated ''Hyakki Yakō'', is an idiom in Japanese folklore. Sometimes an orderly procession, other times a riot, it refers to a parade of thousands of supernatural creatures ...
'' on contemporary Japanese military actions in China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. He cooperated with Tsukioka Yoshitoshi in the production of the ''muzan-e
''Muzan-e'' (), also known as "Bloody Prints", refers to Japanese woodcut prints of violent nature published in the late Edo and Meiji periods.
One of the earliest and most well-known examples is the collection by the artists Yoshitoshi and Y ...
'' ("cruel pictures") series ''Eimei nijūhasshūku'' ("Twenty-eight famous murders with verse").Forbes, Andrew; Henley, David (2012). ''28 Famous Murders''. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B00AGHJVOS
Gallery
See also
*Schools of ukiyo-e artists
Ukiyo-e artists may be organized into schools, 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.Assignment of arti ...
* List of ukiyo-e terms
This is a list of terms frequently encountered in the description of -style Japanese woodblock prints and paintings. For a list of print sizes, see below.
* ; "blue picture"
* ; "red picture"
* ; "examined" character found in many censor seals
* ...
References
Works cited
*References
* Lane, Richard. (1978). ''Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.OCLC 5246796
* Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). ''Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints.'' Amsterdam: Hotei.
OCLC 61666175
* Roberts, Laurance P. (1976). ''A Dictionary of Japanese Artists.'' New York: Weatherhill.
OCLC 2005932
External links
* Museum of Fine Arts, Bostondigitized images
* Indianapolis Museum of Art
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* Brooklyn Museum
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* Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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