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Utagawa Kuniaki (歌川国明)

Also known as: Utagawa Kuniaki (歌川国明); primary name: Utagawa Kuniaki; family name: Hirazawa; go: Ichiosai; go: Ipposai; other name: 一凰齋
Details: individual; printmaker; painter/draughtsman; Ukiyo-e School; Japanese; Male
Other dates: 1844-1868 (c. active)
Biography: Print artist and painter. Pupil of Utagawa Kunisada (q.v.); thought by some to be the same person as Hachisuka Kuniaki (q.v.). His father, Tatsunosuke, a minor samurai in the fourteenth division of castle guards. Produced actor and genre prints and paintings of beauties during the late Edo period. Also did Yokohama prints.