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Kuniteru II (二代目 歌川国輝; c. 1830 - December 15, 1874), also known as Kunitsuna II, was a Japanese ukiyo-e (nishiki-e) artist of the Utagawa School. Despite his pen name, he was actually more directly a disciple of Kunisada (歌川国貞, 1786 - 1865, also known as Toyokuni III) than of Kuniteru (fl. c. 1818 - 1860). Like other artists of the Utagawa school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods, Kuniteru II produced a wide range of works, including depictions of foreigners and foreign influence in Japan, and the drastic changes underway in Japanese society. He was best known for a series of views of famous places in his native Tokyo, along with depictions of railways and a group of prints produced for schoolchildren commissioned by the new Ministry of Education in 1873. Along with Kunisada II (1823 - 1880), he is among the last of the prominent artists of the Utagawa school.
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