Utagawa Toyoharu - Battle of Yashima - (Oriental Art) - Framed picture 11 x 14

Utagawa Toyoharu was a Japanese artist in the ukiyo-e genre, known as the founder of the Utagawa school and for his uki-e pictures that incorporated Western-style geometrical perspective to create a sense of depth.

Toyoharu soon became known for his uki-e "floating pictures" of landscapes and famous sites, as well as copies of Western and Chinese perspective prints.

Toyoharu was the first to make the landscape a subject of ukiyo-e art, rather than just a background to figures and events.

Several of Toyoharu's prints were imitations of imported prints of famed European locations. The titles were often fictional, a famous example is "The Bell which Resounds for Ten Thousand Leagues in the Dutch Port of Frankai" which is an imitation of a print of the Grand Canal of Venice from 1742 by Antonio Visentini.