Comments:

Virtually nothing is known about this artist. He was active just before the Tenpô Reforms (Tenpô kaikaku) of 1842 ended print production for five years. Toyohide's documented designs, which number only around a dozen, are rarely encountered in the marketplace.

Hendrick Lühl (unpublished correspondence) has determined that there was a second artist named Toyohide (dates unknown), also signing "Kitagawa Toyohide" or simply "Toyohide," who worked in the post-Tenpô chûban format (circa 1847-63).

No pupils of the first Toyohide have been identified.