Utagawa Toyohiro
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A young member of a Ryukyuan embassy to Edo, depicted in a hand-colored print by Toyohiro, one of a set of eleven in the collection of the Okinawa Prefectural Archives
Utagawa Toyohiro was an ukiyo-e artist of the Utagawa school. He was known for his yakusha-e (images of kabuki actors) and musha-e (pictures of warriors), among other genres.
He was also known as Okajima.[1]
His students included his son Utagawa Toyokiyo, who died young, as well as Utagawa Hiroshige and Utagawa Hiromasa.
References
- ↑ Chris Uhlenbeck, Hiroshige: Shaping the Image of Japan. Hotei Publishing, 2008. p8.
