Prints in Collection
Biographical Data
Biography
Utagawa Masanobu 歌川 政信 (fl. 1882-1887)A fifth generation Utagawa school artist1 about whom nothing is known. He did create several prints of the circus, as pictured below, and at least one series of prints depicting Tokyo meisho (famous places.) He used the gō Baido 梅童 for some of his works.
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Utagawa_school_members
A Few of the Artist's Works
 Baido Masanobu 西洋チヤリ子大曲馬ノ図 seiyo charine daikyokuba no zu (Chiarini's great circus) 1886 Waseda University Library 10 08021 0009 |   Edo-Tokyo Museum |  Tai-ryo Kujira [A Great Whale Catch], 1884 New Bedford Whaling Museum 2001.100.6680  Rise and decline of various things of present time UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection ucsf_p004 |
Sample Signatures
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