Kobayashi Ikuhide

Biography:

Kobayashi Ikuhide was a Japanese artist who lived and worked during the late Edo period to the end of the Meiji period. He was an apprentice of Utagawa Yoshiiku, one of the most famous ukiyo-e artists of his time. Kobayashi Ikuhide produced prints dealing with manners and customs, famous views (meishō), as well as war prints and kabuki actor prints. Other gagō names he used were Hikitei and Shinbitei.