Yanagawa Nobusada
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Yanagawa Nobusada's signatures: "Yukinobu ga" (left) and "Nobusada ga" (right)
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Actor Arashi Tomisaburô as Daruma crossing the Yangtze River on a reed, woodblock print by Yanagawa Nobusada, 1822
In this Japanese name, the family name is "Yanagawa".
Yanagawa Nobusada was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints in Osaka who was active from about 1822 to 1832. His teacher, Yanagawa Shigenobu, gave him the name Yanagawa Yukinobu. A print from 1823 records the latter’s name change from Yukinobu (雪信) to Nobusada (信貞).
References
- Keyes, Roger S. & Keiko Mizushima, The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art,1973, 271.
- Lane, Richard. (1978). Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10-ISBN 0192114476/13-ISBN 9780192114471; OCLC 5246796
- Ujlaki, Peter, Woodblock Prints, Faux Zen Kabuki, Daruma Magazine, No. 60, 53, 2008.