Utagawa Yoshitaki
Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints
Died when: 58 years 76 days (698 months)Star Sign: Aries

Utagawa Yoshitaki (?? ??, April 13, 1841 – June 28, 1899), who is also known as Ichiyosai Yoshitaki (??? ??), was a Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints who was active in both Edo (Tokyo) and Osaka.
He was also a painter and newspaper illustrator.His father was a paste merchant, and Yoshitaki became a student of (1819–1879).
Yoshitaki was 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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