Yanagawa Nobusada

Yanagawa Nobusada's signatures: "Yukinobu ga" (left) and "Nobusada ga" (right)

Actor Arashi Tomisaburô as Daruma crossing the Yangtze River on a reed, woodblock print by Yanagawa Nobusada, 1822

In this Japanese name, the surname 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. ISBN 9780192114471; OCLC 5246796
• Ujlaki, Peter, Woodblock Prints, Faux Zen Kabuki, Daruma Magazine, No. 60, 53, 2008.