Okumura Toshinobu

• Active: c. 1717-1740s
• Japanese: 奥村利信 (Okumura Toshinobu)

Okumura Toshinobu was an ukiyo-e artist and pupil of Okumura Masanobu. Possibly Masanobu's adopted son, he is believed to be the only artist of note to have trained directly with the latter. He specialized in, and excelled at, smaller urushi-e prints of beautiful women or girls.

Though his master self-published, most of Toshinobu's works were not published by Masanobu. Ukiyo-e expert Richard Lane suggests this may have reflected Masanobu's publishing operation being too busy, or that the master believed Toshinobu's work would benefit from an outside editorial eye.

References

• Lane, Richard. Images from the Floating World. New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1978. pp79-80.