Artist – Utagawa YOSHITSUNA (歌川 芳綱), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist (years active from 1848 until 1868). He had been producing from Kaei to Keio (1848 - 1868). YOSHITSUNA painted warrior paintings, caricatures, genre paintings, toy prints,  smallpox talisman prints, and sugoroku (game board) paintings.

YOSHITSUNA started his career as pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳). There he adopted the ga-name 'Utagawa YOSHITSUNA (歌川 芳綱), just in order to reveal that he was part of the tradition of the Utagawa school following Kuniyoshi. One of his most often cited prints is the 1855 "Dietary Life Rules" (Inshoku yôjô kagami, 飲食養生鑑), showing the human open body, and explains in detail ill effects of intemperance as of drinking too much sake, and functions of the human organs. The female counterpart of this print, "Rules of Sexual Life" (Boji yojo kagami, 房事養生鑑) shows a woman, apparently a courtesan, holding a tobacco pipe to her mouth. Both prints are an important contribution to the popular scientific dissemination of medical knowledge in Japan at it's time.

Personal life - Little is known about the life of YOSHITSUNA. He was born under his real surname "Tanabe" ("田辺"), commonly known as "Seitaro" (清太郎"), or simply "Sai" ("斎"). He had been living in nowadays Tokiyo's Shimomaki-cho (now Nihonbashi 3-chome).

Aliases - YOSHITSUNA used Utagawa Yoshitsuna (歌川 芳綱) , Ittôsai Yoshitsuna (一登斎芳綱) or even only the epithets.

Disciples - no known disciples