Utagawa Toyohiro (歌川豊広, 歌川豐廣), birth name Okajima Tōjiro (1773–1828), was a Japanese ukiyo-e player and painter. He was a believer of the Utagawa theoretical and studied below Utagawa Toyoharu, the school’s founder. His works increase a number of ukiyo-e landscape series, as skillfully as many depictions of the daily actions in the Yoshiwara entertainment quarter; many of his stylistic features paved the mannerism for Hokusai and Hiroshige (the latter a prodigy who studied under Toyohiro, becoming one of the very finest of whatever landscape artists), as without difficulty as producing an important series of ukiyo-e triptychs in collaboration taking into account Toyokuni, and numerous folder and e-hon illustrations, which occupied him in his progressive years.
The ukiyo-e series he produced tally the following:
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