Utagawa Yoshiiku (?? ??; 1833 - February 6; 1904; also known as or Ochiai Yoshiiku ?? ??); was a Japanese printmaker and newspaper illustrator. The son of a tea house proprietor; he was a student of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Utagawa went to school with Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; recognized as the last great masters of Ukiyo (woodblock printing).

Eimei nijuhasshuku (?? ??? ?? or 鈥?8 Famous Murders with Verse').; also known as the 'Bloody Prints'; is a collection of Japanese ukiyo-e from the 1860s; which depicted gruesome acts of murder or torture based on historical events or scenes in Kabuki plays. Although most of the works are solely violent by nature; it is perhaps the first known example of ero guro or the erotic grotesque in Japanese culture; an art sub-genre which depicts either erotic or extreme images of violence and mutilation.