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Japanese Ukiyo-e has a high artistic status in the world, and many world painting masters have been influenced by it. In the 19th century, Japan set off an upsurge of Ukiyo-e Water Margin. Among them, the Ukiyo-e monolithic painting "Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Water Margin", created by Ukiyo-e master Utagawa Kuniyoshi, was the most famous Water Margin picture book at the time, which swept the entire Edo.

 

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Kansei 9th-Fumhisa 1st year (1798-1861), a famous Japanese painter of Ukiyoe, Haoichi Yuzuo, Asakuraro, from the Edo period of Japan, is one of the masters of the late Ukiyoe Utagawa School.

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