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Kuniaki II UTAGAWA  -  1835-1888      

Kuniaki II was a younger brother of Kuniaki Utagawa. He had learned ukiyo-e as a pupil of Kunisada. Kuniaki is best known for charming images of sumo wrestlers and for Yokohama prints (depictions of foreigners from the enclave of Yokohama). In his later years he made illustrations of the Meiji era industrialization of the country.
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Notes: also Kuniaki Hachisuka, Hosai

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Literature sources used for artist biographies:
  • Merritt, Helen and Yamada, Nanako, "Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints 1900-1975", University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8248-1732-X
  • Lane, Richard, "Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print", Fribourg, 1978, ISBN 0-914427-54-7
  • Laurance, P.Roberts, "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists", John Weatherhill Inc., New York, 1976
  • Frances Blakemore "Who is Who in Modern Japanese Prints", John Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 1975. ISBN 0-8348-0101-9
  • Annual CWAJ catalogs