Utagawa Yoshikazu (歌川芳員) (artist )
Issen (go - 一川)Isshunsai (go - 一春斎)
Jirobei (nickname - 次郎兵衛)
Jirokichi (nickname - 次郎吉)
Ichijusai (go - 一寿斎)
Ichikawa Yoshikazu (go - 一川芳員)
Issen Yoshikazu (一川芳員)
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Biography:
Born and lived in Edo, active in the 1850s through '70s. Pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. One of the major early printmakers of Yokohama views. His subject matter included foreigners and foreign customs and and manners as well as landscapes and warriors. Also book illustrator.
Original name unknown, and often signed work "Ichikawa Yoshikazu." (Roberts, Dictionary of Japanese Artists..., p.202.)
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Yoshikazu's prints appear in numerous museum collections including the Achenbach Foundation; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Tokyo Metropolitan Library; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the National Museum of Asian Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Bibliothèque nationale de France; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Rijksmuseum; the British Museum; the National Diet Library; the Brooklyn Museum; the Library of Congress; the Silesian University, Rome; the Honolulu Museum of Art; the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden; the Harvard Art Museums; Ritsumeikan University; the Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; the Sainsbury Institute; the Ako City Museum of History; the National Museum of Japanese History; Museum of Oriental Arts, Venice; the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts; the Walters Museum of Art; the Náprstek Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the University of Tokyo; the musée Gustave Moreau; the musée Guimet; the Maizuru City Itoi Collection; Waseda University; the Van Gogh Museum; the Kobe City Museum; the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; et al.