Utagawa Yoshikazu

Umbrella ghost ( kasa-obake )

Utagawa Yoshikazu ( Japanese 歌 川 芳 員 ; born in Edo ; active 1850-1870) was a Japanese painter in the ukiyoe style during the late Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period .

life and work

Yoshikazu was born and lived in Edo. He was a student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi and was one of the early and important woodcut artists who dealt with the Yokohama pictures . His subjects were foreigners and foreign customs, but he also created images of landscapes and warriors. He also illustrated books.

Yoshikazu's actual family name is not known. He used his master's family name and often signed as Issen Yoshikazu ( 一 川 芳 員 ).

photos

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  Minamoto Yoritomo on the hunt

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  French (with pocket watch)

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  Foreigners sewing

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  Kitchen in the foreigner restaurant

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  Foreigners having wine

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  Foreigners in the evening

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  Foreigners in front of the gankirō

Remarks

1. ↑ The umbrella ghost, No. 6 from the dice game "100 Kinds of Ghost Stories" ( 百 種 怪 談 妖物 雙 六 , Hyakurui kaidan yōbutsu Sugoroku )
2. ↑ The designation 佛蘭西 人 ( Furansu-jin ) = French is introduced to 正 寫 ( Seisha ), which means, for example, " realistic illustration".
3. ↑ While the term gaikokujin ( 外国人 ) is mostly used for “foreigner” , here is injin ( 異 人 ), which can be translated as “foreigner”.
4. ↑ The Gankirō ( 岩 亀 楼 ) was an amusement bar for foreigners in Yokohama.

literature

• Fukuda, Kazuhiko (Ed.): Nihon no seikimatsu. Yomiuri Shimbun, 1987. ISBN 4-64387031-1 .
• Meech-Pekarik, Julia: The World of the Meiji Print. Impressions of a new Civilization. Weatherhill, 1986. ISBN 0-8348-0209-0 .
• Laurance P. Roberts: Utagawa Yoshikazu . In: A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Weatherhill, 1976. ISBN 0-8348-0113-2 .

Web links

Commons : Utagawa Yoshikazu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Utagawa is the family name, Yoshikazu the first name.