Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments

Essays
Establishing a Lineage: The Utagawa School and Japan’s Print Culture Laura J. Mueller

Ukiyo-e Artists and Their Patrons: The Case of Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) and the Wealthy Merchant Mitani Chōzaburō Kobayashi Tadashi

The Mutual Flowering of the Utagawa School and Kabuki Fujisawa Akane

Warrior Prints and the Double-edged Sword of Loyalty Ellis Tinios

Creative Specialization and Collaborative Projects Laura J. Mueller

Catalogue
Establishing a Name: Utagawa Toyoharu

The Studios of Toyohiro and Toyokuni

Creative Specialization: Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, and Kunisada

Collaborative Works

Utagawa Style and Market Dominance

Claiming the Lineage: Later Artists of the Utagawa School

Artist Biographies
The Artistic Lineage of the Utagawa School
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Laura J. Mueller, guest curator for the exhibition Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School at the Chazen Museum of Art, and doctoral candidate in Japanese art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison specializing in the study and research of Japanese woodblock prints. She is author of Strong Women, Beautiful Men: Japanese Portrait Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art (2005).
Fujisawa Akane, lecturer of Japanese literature at Gakushūin University in
Tokyo. She published Ukiyo-e of the Utagawa School and the Edo Publishing
World: Kabuki Actor Prints (2001).
Kobayashi Tadashi, professor of Japanese art history at Gakushūin University in
Tokyo and director of the Chiba City Museum of Art. His recent publications include Masterpieces of Landscape: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Honolulu Academy of Arts (2003) and Suzuki Harunobu (2002).
Ellis Tinios, honorary lecturer in the School of History, University of Leeds; research associate at the Japan Research Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and special assistant to the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia, British Museum. He is the author of Mirror of the Stage: The Actor Prints of Kunisada (1996), and On the Margins of the City: Recreation on the Periphery of Edo (with Paul Waley, 1999).