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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797¬-1861) is indisputably a major force in the history of Japanese woodblock prints. His career spanned almost fifty years from the 1810s to 1860 and he helped establish the warrior genre as one of the main pillars of the Ukiyo-e tradition. Kuniyoshi has created some of the most spectacular heroic triptychs which still resonate today in modern manga culture.

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Iwakiri Yuriko is an independent scholar of Japanese woodblock prints, with a special interest in the iconography of warrior prints. She has published extensively as author and editor in this area and in other aspects of Edo- and Meiji-period prints, including the publications Utagawa Kuniyoshi Kisokaidō rokujūkyū tsugi (1994), Kuniyoshi yōkai hyakkei (1999), Ukiyo-e dai musha-e ten (2003), Japanese warrior prints (1646–1905) (2007), Yoshitoshi: Tsuki hyakushi (2010) and Botsugo 150 nen Utagawa Kuniyoshi ten/Kuniyoshi: spectacular ukiyo-e imagination (2011). Amy Reigle Newland is an independent scholar of Japanese woodblock prints, working as an author and editor in that field, including the publications Beauty & violence, Japanese prints by Yoshitoshi (1839–1892) (1991), The new wave: twentieth century Japanese prints from the R.O. Muller collection (1992), Heroes & ghosts: Japanese prints by Kuniyoshi (1998), The Hotei encyclopedia of Japanese woodblock prints (2005), The beauty of silence: Japanese nō & nature prints by Tsukioka Kōgyo 1869–1927 (2010) and Yoshitoshi: masterpieces from the Ed Fries collection (2011).

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