IbasenIbaya Kanzaemon, a merchant from Hamamatsu who came to Edo with Ieyasu Tokugawa, founded Ibaya Kanzaemon in Nihonbashi, Edo (present-day Tokyo), and was mainly dealing in Japanese paper, paper products, and bamboo products for the shogunate.
In the late Edo periodround fanThe company became the publisher of popular artists such as Toyokuni Utagawa I, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, Hiroshige Utagawa, and others, and started to produce ukiyoe prints.round fanThe company became the publisher of popular artists such as Toyokuni Utagawa I, Kuniyoshi Utagawa, and Hiroshige Utagawa, and gained popularity by printing ukiyoe on