Waichi Hayashi      

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Waichi Hayashi was born in 1951 in Shizuoka prefecture. In 1974 he had graduated from the Department of Japanese Art at Kanazawa Art and Crafts College. The artist is active in more than one field of traditional Japanese arts. He works in woodblock prints, the pottery and ceramics and in suiboku-ga. These are black and white sumi-ink paintings.
Catalog Waichi Hayashi

Yoshitsuya Koko      

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Yoshitsuya was a pupil of Kuniyoshi. He worked as a printmaker and an illustrator. Best known are his prints with warriors and with subjects from Japanese legends and history. He also made Japanese tattoo designs (irezumi).
Catalog Yoshitsuya Koko

Yoshitoshi Mori      

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Yoshitoshi Mori is one of the best known sosaku hanga style artists although he started his career late in his life. He had studied painting and commercial design in Tokyo. Most of his life he worked as a designer and turned to printmaking at an age above fifty.
Catalog Yoshitoshi Mori

Yoshitora Utagawa      

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Yoshitora lived and worked in Edo (ancient name for Tokyo). He made many prints showing scenes in Edo. Famous and unique are his prints showing foreigners in Yokohama and flamboyant historical scenes from Japan's history. Especially his Yokohama prints sometimes have a naive charm like the paintings of the great French post-impressionist, Henri Rousseau.
Catalog Yoshitora Utagawa

Yoshitaki Utagawa      

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His original name was Nakai Yoshitaki. Yoshitaki was a pupil of Yoshiume. He became a member of the so-called Kamigata-e school. From about 1860 to 1880 he was a leading member of the Osaka school - famous for actor prints.
Catalog Yoshitaki Utagawa

Yoshisuke Funasaka      

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Yoshisuke Funasaka graduated from Tama Art College. He works in woodblock and silk screen. The artist used to integrate the shape of a lemon into his print designs, but abandoned this habit in the mid 1970s. Yoshisuke Funasaka is internationally renowned and has exhibited widely in the many of the International Print Shows (Biennales). The artist's medium is woodblock and silkscreen.
Catalog Yoshisuke Funasaka

Yoshimune Arai      

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also Yoshimune II
Catalog Yoshimune Arai

Yoshikazu Utagawa      

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Yoshikazu Utagawa was born in Edo (Tokyo) where he stayed for the rest of his life. He started as a pupil of Kuniyoshi Utagawa. Yoshikazu is a major printmaker of the Yokohama school. His favorite subjects were foreigners and foreign manners. He often signed his prints with Ichikawa Yoshikazu.
Catalog Yoshikazu Utagawa

Yoshiiku Utagawa      also Yoshiiku Ikkeisai

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Yoshiiku was the son of a tea house proprietor. Together with Yoshitoshi he attended the printmaking school of Kuniyoshi. From this time dates a life-long rivalry with Yoshitoshi whom the young Yoshiiku bullied at school. In his time he was a popular newspaper illustrator.
Catalog Yoshiiku Utagawa

Yoshiichi Ebata      also Hoichi Ebata

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Yoshiichi Ebata was born in 1899 in Aichi prefecture. He met Unichi Hiratsuka in 1930 and began to make woodblock prints. Yoshiichi Ebata was a founding member of "Shin-Hanga Shudan" in 1932 and "Kitsutsuki" in 1942.
Catalog Yoshiichi Ebata