Toyohara Chikanobu

The artist's "real name" (本名, honmyō) was Hashimoto Naoyoshi (橋本直義); and it was published in his obituary.

[1] In his younger days, he had studied the Kanō school of painting; but his interest was drawn to ukiyo-e.

He studied with a disciple of Keisai Eisen and then he joined the school of Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi; during this period, he called himself Yoshitsuru.

His work ranged from Japanese mythology to depictions of the battlefields of his lifetime to women's fashions.

[7] Chikanobu is a recognizable Meiji period artist,[8] but his subjects were sometimes drawn from earlier historical eras.

[9] The early Meiji period was marked by clashes between disputing samurai forces with differing views about ending Japan's self-imposed isolation and about the changing relationship between the Imperial court and the Tokugawa shogunate.

The greatest number of Chikanobu's war prints (戦争絵, sensō-e) appeared in triptych format.

[17] His signature may also be found in the line drawings and illustrations in a number of ehon (絵本), which were mostly of a historical nature.

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Hashimoto Toyohara, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 300+ works in 300+ publications in 2 languages and 700+ library holdings[19]