Japan: The courtesan Azuma of the Wisteria House and the Oil-seller Aburaya Yohei, from the play 'The Story of an Oil-seller in the Pleasure Quarter' (Aburauri Koi no Yamazaki), Utagawa Yoshitaki (1841–1899), 1859

Utagawa Yoshitaki ( April 13, 1841 – June 28, 1899), also known as Ichiyosai Yoshitaki, was a designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints. He was active in both Edo (Tokyo) and Osaka and was also a painter and newspaper illustrator.

Yoshitaki was a student of Utagawa Yoshiume (1819–1879). He became 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.

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