Utagawa Yoshiharu (歌川芳春) (artist 1828 – 1888)

Chōkarō ( - 朝華楼)
Ichibaisai ( - 一梅斎芳春)
Ikkissai ()
Ikkitsusai ()
Ippōsai ( - 一峰斎)
Kida (original family name - 生田)
Utagawa Ikasaburō (family name - 歌川幾三郎)

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Biography:

"Edo / Tokyo print designer and book illustrator. Pupil first of Yanagawa Shigenobu II and later Utagawa Kuniyoshi, He produced bijinga, kaika-e, musha-e, omocha-e, specializing in pictures of Western circus performers like his ōban, nishiki-e triptych, 'Great Circus from France' (Furansu daikyokuba, 1871), in a Kuniyoshi style."

Quoted from: The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, p. 505.

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It has been said that Yoshiharu actually wanted to become a kabuki actor and to study with Nakamura Shikan, but his adopted father was opposed to this. So, instead he became a pupil of Kuniyoshi. He is also said to have worked as an illustrator for a newspaper.

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