Ueda Kocho 上田公長

上田公長 Ueda Kocho (1788-1850)
Osaka painter active in the late Edo period. He studied under Matsumura Goshun, a painter of the Shijo school, and later became a student of Nakai Rankou and established his own family. He was summoned by Tokugawa Nariyuki, lord of the Kishu Tokugawa clan, and became an official painter, receiving the surname Ueda and the hollyhock crest.