Fusatane Utagawa, Courtesan of the House of Daimonji

Fusatane Utagawa

Fusatane was a ukiyo-e artist through the Edo to Meiji period transitional years. Under the tutelage of Utagawa Sadafusa, Fusatane’s competency in a variety of genres is evident. His landscapes, as well as bijinga (beauty prints) and kaika-e (depictions of Japan’s modernisaton) were typical in style to those in the Utagawa school. Due to the decline of the ukiyo-e industry at the time, Fusatane took on other illustrating jobs at newspapers and book publishers, like many artists at the time.