Kikuchi Yosai was born in 1788 in Edo. Edo is the former name of the Japanese capital of Tokyo. He lived for 90 years before dying in 1878. His training was in the traditional method of copying the sample books. Later in his life he promoted natural models. In the Edo era he was a veryh popular artist and taught many pupils including Watanabe Seitei. Watanabe was popular around 1890. Famous for this .
