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UTAGAWA YOSHIIKU
1833 - 1904

Son of the owner of a tea-house, Yoshiiku was a pupil of Kuniyoshi along with Yoshitoshi, six years his junior. It is said that the elder Yoshiiku bullied Yoshitoshi and that the two printmakers shared a life-long rivalry. Despite this the two artists collaborated together to draw a few series of prints. From 1874 to 1875 Yoshiiku produced drawings for prints published by the newspaper Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun (Tokyo Daily News), and then co-founded the Tokyo E-iri Shinbun (Tokyo Illustrated News).