{"id":22,"count":3,"description":"Arai Yoshimune (1863-1941), or Utagawa Yoshimune II, was the eleventh and youngest son of Utagawa Yoshimune I (1817-1880) and spent his childhood residence in the Kinroku-ch\u014d area of Tokyo. At a young age he studied with the famous <i>ukiyo-e<\/i> artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) and he assumed the name Toshiyuki at age thirteen. After his father\u2019s death he was adopted by the Arai family. He succeeded his father in 1882 to become Yoshimune II and occasionally used his father\u2019s art name Issh\u014dsai, along with the adopted name Arai Yoshimune. Arai worked primarily with the Hasegawa\/Nishinomiya publishing house. By 1893, Arai was part of Hasegawa\u2019s stable team along with Suzuki Kason and Mishima Sh\u014ds\u014d. While he was a frequent collaborator on crepe-paper book illustration, he is also well known for his <i>shin-hanga<\/i> contributions to Hasegawa\u2019s Night Scenes. ","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/project_category\/arai\/","name":"Arai Yoshimune","slug":"arai","taxonomy":"project_category","parent":18,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/project_category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category\/18"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/crepepaperbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?project_category=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}