Kunisada Utagawa (Toyokuni III): Kunisada Utagawa primarily created actor prints and prints of beautiful women. Due to the topicality of his art, his creations were inherently ephemeral as they were poised on current trends. However, this lent itself well to the usage of the prints as they would be pasted onto walls and quickly fade. As such, the owner would need to purchase new prints to replace the damaged ones. While Kunisada was prolific during his lifetime, when Western audiences encountered his work in the late twentieth century they came to the conclusion that he was an inferior artist to his contemporaries. This opinion shifted in the 1990s when critics began to reevaluate Kunisada's oeuvre and he instead became understood as a master of the Ukiyo-e craft.

Tinios, E. (1991). Kunisada and the Last Flowering of “Ukiyo-e” Prints. Print Quarterly, 8(4), 342–362. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41824668

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was a student of Ukiyo-e master Kuniyoshi. He distinguished himself by creating violent images that reflected the brutality he witnessed in his own life. He also made series that depicted Kabuki theater and horror stories. His work seperated himself from the usual gentle beauty found in Ukiyo-e woodprints. Mozur (2011) posits that Yoshitoshi may have influenced the eventual style of both manga and anime in Japan (p.383).

Mozur, N. (2011). About the Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Psychological Perspectives, 54(4), 382–384. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2011.622625