Utagawa Sadahiro (歌川貞広) (artist )
Gochōtei (go - 五蝶亭)Nanakawa (original family name - 七川?)
Gokitei (go - 五輝亭)
Gorakutei (go - 五楽亭)
Gosōtei (go - 五粽亭)
Kōgadō (go - 好画堂)
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Biography:
Osaka painter, print designer and illustrator. Sadahiro may have studied with the Osaka Shijō painter Ueda Kōchō (active ca early-mid 19th C) and briefly with Utagawa Kunisada in Edo in 1828. "Before 1842, his single sheet nishiki-e... were almost exclusively ōban format yakusha-e. After 1847, he produced mostly chūban... yakushi-e."
The above is quoted directly from Osaka Prints.
His lifespan is not known, but according to the Philadelphia Museum of art he was active from 1826 to 1863 and died in ca. 1865.. However, most scholars accept that he was active from ca. 1830-50 according to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a bit earlier, the 1820s, by other sources.
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Jan van Doesburg wrote: "Sadahiro is listed on the Toyokuni I memorial stone as a pupil of Kunisada. He returned to Osaka briefly in 1830, returned again in 1835, and then started building a career as an Osaka printmaker.7 He was befriended with Sadamasu, who undoubtedly had met him as a fellow student in Edo, and maybe the two knew each other already before that time. Later in his career Sadahiro may have changed his name to Hirosada (see hereafter) and then considered himself no longer a pupil of Kunisada but of Sadamasu’s. The change of teacher is not only to be ascribed to the artistic influence of Sadamasu. It also makes clear that Sadamasu held an important position in the Utagawa school and suggests that the position was firmly embedded in the past."