1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
UTAMARO (1754-1806), one of the best known of the Japanese designers of colour-prints, was born at Kawayoye. His father was a well-known painter of the Kano School, Toriyama Sekiyen (Toyofusa), a pupil of Kano Chikanobu; and Utamaro traced his descent from the old feudal clans of the Minamoto, whose war with the Taira family belongs to the romantic period of Japanese history. Utamaro's personal name was Yusuke; and he first worked under the signature Toriyama Toyo-aki; but after a quarrel with his father substitute…
- Source status
- OCR text aligned to scanned pages
- Pages
- Vol. 27, pp. 819-819