Utagawa Toyohiro

Utagawa Toyohiro (歌川豊広, 歌川豐廣), birth name Okajima Tōjiro (1773–1828), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter. He was a member of the Utagawa school and studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the school's founder. His works include a number of ukiyo-e landscape series, as well as many depictions of the daily activities in the Yoshiwara entertainment quarter; many of his stylistic features paved the way for Hokusai and Hiroshige (the latter a prodigy who studied under Toyohiro, becoming one of the very finest of all landscape artists), as well as producing an important series of ukiyo-e triptychs in collaboration with Toyokuni, and numerous book and e-hon illustrations, which occupied him in his later years. The ukiyo-e series he produced include the following: Eight Views of Edo (several series) Eight Views of Ōmi (several series) Newly Published Perspective Pieces (Shinpan uki-e) Twelve Months by Two Artists, Toyokuni and Toyohiro (Toyokuni Toyohiro ryōga jūnikō), with Toyokuni Untitled series of A Day in the Life of a Geisha Untitled series of Eight Views of Edo in the Snow The Six Great Poets The Twelve Hours The Four Accomplishments The Three Cities