Utagawa Yoshitaki

File:Signatures of Utagawa Yoshitaki reading from left to right- Yoshitaki ga, Ichiyôsai Yoshitaki, Ichiyôtei Yoshitaki ga, and Satonoya Yoshitaki.jpg

Signatures of Utagawa Yoshitaki reading from left to right:
•“Yoshitaki ga” (芳滝　画)
•“Ichiyōsai Yoshitaki” (一養斎　芳滝)
•“Ichiyōtei Yoshitaki ga” (一養亭　芳滝　画)
•“Satonoya Yoshitaki” (里の家　芳滝)

, who is also known as Ichiyōsai Yoshitaki (一養斎 芳滝), was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints who was active in both Edo (Tokyo) and Osaka. He was also a painter and newspaper illustrator. His father was a paste merchant, and Yoshitaki became a student of Utagawa Yoshiume (1819–1879). Yoshitaki was the most prolific designer of woodblock prints in Osaka from the 1860s to the 1880s, producing more than 1,200 different prints, almost all of kabuki actors.

Gallery

• Woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitaki of kabuki actor Enjaku Jitsukawa I as Saijō Takanori in the March 1873 Osaka Ebisu-za production of Seinan Yume Monogatari
  Woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitaki of kabuki actor Enjaku Jitsukawa I as Saijō Takanori in the March 1873 Osaka Ebisu-za production of Seinan Yume Monogatari

References

• Lane, Richard, Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print, New York, Putnam, 1978, 349.
• Newland, Amy Reigle. (2005). Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei. Template:ISBN; OCLC 61666175
• Roberts, Laurance P. (1976). A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. New York: Weatherhill. Template:ISBN; OCLC 2005932