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Utagawa Kuniteru II 歌川 国輝（ニ代）画 (1830-1874)Sources: The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Amy Reigle Newland, Hotei Publishing Company, 2005, p. 503; A Dictionary of Japanese Artists: Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, Lacquer, Laurance P. Roberts, Weatherhill, 1976, p. 97-98.
Utagawa Kuniteru II (1830-1874)1 was born Yamada Kunijiro in Edo (Tokyo) and was a print designer, painter and, perhaps, book illustrator. He studied under Utagawa Kunisada I (1786–1865). He produced yakusha-e (actor pictures), bijinga (beautiful women pictures), fuzokuga (pictures of manors and customs), meisho-e (pictures of famous places) sumo-e (pictures of wrestlers) and, most famously bunmei kaika-e (pictures of modernization) in a late Utagawa-school manner.
He was known by various names, including the gago Ichiyōsai 一曜斎, Ichiyūsai 一雄斎, Yōsai 曜斎, Ichiransai, and Kunitsuna II. Before 1844 he may also have been known as Sadashige and signed works with the name Ichiyūsai. He changed his name in 1865 to Kuniteru II.
Japan Awakens: Woodblock Prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912),
Barry Till, Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2008, p. 90.
Barry Till, Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2008, p. 90.
1 A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, lists his birth date as 1829, but most other sources list it as 1830.
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