Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川 国芳) (1. januar 1797[1] – 14. april 1861) var en af de sidste store mestre inden for japansk ukiyo-e.[2]
Omfanget af Kuniyoshis subjekter inkluderer flere genre: Landskaber, smukke kvinder, Kabuki-skuespillere og mystiske dyr. Han er kendt for sine fremstillinger af samurai-helte og deres indbyrdes krigsslag.[3]
Forbes, Andrew ; Henley, David (2012). Forty-Seven Ronin: Utagawa Kuniyoshi Edition. Chiang Mai: Cognoscenti Books. ASIN: B00ADQM8II
Merlin C. Dailey, David Stansbury, Utagawa Kuniyoshi: An Exhibition of the Work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi Based on the Raymond A. Bidwell Collection of Japanese Prints at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, 1980)
Merlin C. Dailey, The Raymond A. Bidwell Collections of Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, 1968).
Klompmakers, Inge, “Kuniyoshi’s Tattooed Heroes of the Suikoden”, Andon, No. 87, 2009, pp. 18–26.
B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi (Victoria and Albert, London, 1961)
B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints (Cornell University, Ithaca, 1982) (indeholder komplet liste over Kuniyoshis træsnit.)
Robert Schaap, Timothy T. Clark, Matthi Forrer, Inagaki Shin'ichi, Heroes and Ghosts: Japanese Prints By Kuniyoshi 1797-1861 (Hotei, Leiden, 1998).