This article contains a list of the members of the Utagawa school of Japanese artists, whose members designed paintings and woodblock prints in the ukiyo-e style from the late Edo period to the end of the Meiji period.
Occasionally the same art-name would be re-used by different, un-related artists at different times (e.g. Kunichika or Kunihisa).
Therefore, some names continued to be used, with numbering to distinguish the various holders (e.g. Kuniteru I, II and III).
After Toyokuni I's death, the name initially was taken over by his student and adoptive son Toyoshige I.
[1] Kunisada I actually styled himself 'Toyokuni II', ignoring the fact that Toyoshige had already been the second user of the name; he is now uniformly known as 'Toyokuni III', however.
), so the art-name alone is not sufficient for identification; the school name has to be added for an exact designation.