Edehon and -: Utagawa-school Works and Chinese NAKAYAMA Sota In the mid-edo period, the produced by Tachibana Morikuni and oka Shunboku were used in amateur painting education to research the technique of professionals. It is believed that the provided professional illustrators with the opportunity to study the techniques used in conservative Kan school tradition, classical painting, and Chinese painting, to which they would have had little access, and incorporate these techniques into their own works. This essay focuses on, a representative print art of Edo-period mass culture, particularly the works of the Utagawa school of the late Edo period, in an attempt to present those pieces that suggest a reliance upon. With this, it is possible to suggest the diffusion of Kan school painting techniques through, and in particular, to discover the transmission through prints