Utagawa school
歌川派
Movement · school · late 18th century–19th century
The most prolific school of ukiyo-e prints in the 19th century1. Dates. Founded in the late 1700s by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735–1814), a painter of perspective pictures (uki-e) whose greatest gift was teaching; his studio produced Toyokuni I (1769–1825), Kuniyoshi (1798–1861) and, through Toyohiro, Hiroshige (1797–1858), and so carried the school through the 19th century2. Mason 2005, p. 288. ↩ Ebd., pp. 288, 292. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.