 He produced over 2000 known prints and was one of the few ukiyo-e artists to achieve fame throughout Japan in his lifetime.In 1804 he was arrested and manacled for fifty days for making illegal prints depicting the 16th-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and died two years later.Utamaro's work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France.