Hirosada II, also known as Sadahiro II, was a designer of

ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock printing, woodblock prints and Nikuhitsu-ga, paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes ...

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. He was a student of

Konishi Hirosada (floruit, fl. c. 1819–1863) was the most prolific Osaka-based designer of ukiyo-e woodblock printing in Japan, woodblock prints during the late Edo period. Like most producers of —prints originating in the Osaka and Kyoto regions—he special ...

, and assumed the name “Hirosada” in 1853, when his teacher ceased designing prints. In the summer of 1864, Hirosada I died and his student changed his name, for a second time, from “Hirosada” (廣貞) to “Sadahiro” (貞廣).

Signature

Whereas the signature of Hirosada I is compact, Hirosada II signed his name in a large bold hand.

References

* Keyes, Roger S., and Susumu Matsudaira, ''Hirosada, Ōsaka Printmaker'', Long Beach, CA, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, 1984, 16–17, 129–130. * Lane, Richard. (1978). ''Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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