Yamazaki Toshinobu (山崎年信) (artist 1857 – 1886)
Sensai (gō - 仙斎)Shunkō (gō - 春香)
Tokusaburō (nickname - 德三郎 - a name he held until 1870)
Yamazaki Shinjirō (family name - 山崎信次郎)
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Biography:
Laurance Roberts wrote: "Ukiyo-e printmaker. Pupil first of Kunisada, then of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Lived in Tōkyō and Yokohama. Member of the Yokohama school of printmakers. Also worked as an illustrator of books and newspapers."
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According to Roberts Toshinobu must have been only 8 or 9 years old when his first teacher Toyokuni III died. Roger Keyes in his doctoral thesis on Yoshitoshi noted on page 24: "Yamazaki Tokusaburō, the young son of the owner of a barber shop, painted a picture on a shrine lantern at the age of 13 that everyone thought was by one of Yoshitoshi's pupils. The boy was introduced to Yoshitoshi, who admired the picture, and took the boy into his studio, giving him the name Toshinobu."
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Roger Keyes in his doctoral dissertation on Yoshitoshi wrote on page 47: "Around 1883, a talented pupil, Yamazaki Toshinobu, stole some of Yoshitoshi's drawings. Yoshitoshi publicly advertised for their return in the newspaper, and soon got over his anger; Toshinobu, however, could not overcome his public shame and moved to Kyotō."
