Ukiyo-e Signature Sample Database

un65📍:

梅琳

1894

梅琳

Bairin(?)

Seal: 空

JACAR/BL 16126.d.2(69) (#69)

1894

楳琳

Bairin(?)

Seal: 空

SLAM 298:2010a-c

un23📍:

梅林宗

1894

梅林宗筆

Bairinsō(?) hitsu

possibly same artist as Umeno (梅埜) in main catalog?

HCCL EE721.8ﾋﾖ

un89📍:

梅雪斎

1851-1853

梅雪斎画

Baisessai(?) ga

RUARC arcUP4969

un154📍:

梅窓

c. 1885-1891

梅窓画

Baisō ga

KHIRIN H-22-1-31-73

un170📍:

美宝

鶫美宝

Tsugumi Biho?

c. 1910?

美宝

Biho(?)

RUARC MM0624 (#19)

c.f. MFA 2016.1415

un183📍:

文尚堂

1819

文尚堂
　畫

Bunshōdō(?) ga

source transcribes as 文寿堂

RUARC shiUY0048

un119📍:

長渚

1856

RUARC BM-JH310-2 (#013)

perhaps c. 1860?

應需長渚寫

ōju Chōsho sha

BM 1902,0212,0.437

un201📍:

口翁

an unidentified signature of Yabu Chōsui

c. 1860

口翁

…ō?

Brooklyn 2002.121.11

c. 1861-1863

口翁

…ō?

MIA P.77.27.25

un204📍:

朶芳

1824

朶芳

Dahō(?)

a nearly identical design owned by CB is signed 「芳中」

IPL 月明文庫 1158 (p.011)

un198📍:

大二

perhaps one of Kuniyoshi's daughters?

1852

大二画

Daini ga

MAK HM 11485-42

un138📍:

台嶺

perhaps the Nanga painter Magata Dairei 勾田台嶺?

late Edo period

臺嶺寫

Dairei sha

TPL A03-18

un178📍:

団好

—

團好画

Danko(?)

source suggests this is from Kyōto

RUARC arcUP3994

un16📍:

栄暁

1895

應需栄暁

Ōju Eikyō(?)

Noda b41

un193📍:

永松斎

attributed to Eishōsai Chōki

—

永松齋

Eishōsai

Seal: Kakunen

BM 1906,1220,0.621

un110📍:

藤貞

Meiji era

藤貞画

Fujisada ga

Keio Bonn 024-715

un164📍:

楓谿

1912?

楓谿

Fūkei

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.832 (v.1 p.16)

un200📍:

ふく

1858

豊国門人
　婦く画

Toyokuni monjin Fuku ga

TML 東C0462-C006

c.f. MFA 11.15361, MAK KI 7627-164

un189📍:

福寿囗

1829

福壽囗画

Fukuju…(?) ga

perhaps 福寿皇? from a Kyōto publisher

RUARC arcUP0590

un130📍:

船麿

富士川船麿

Fujikawa Funamaro?

1860?

冨士川船麿筆

Fujikawa Funamaro(?) hitsu

NIJL 100080557 (#7)

—

船麿筆

Funamaro(?) hitsu

NIJL 100080557 (#45)

un140📍:

楽其

1820s

楽其

Gakuki(?)

RISD 34.335

un205📍:

囗囗

1810

囗囗囗画

supposedly 石田玉峯画, but ... ?

NIJL 100229920 (#232)

un53📍:

繁谷

1800-1850

繁谷

Hankoku

RISD 34.627

—

應需冩
　繁谷

possibly the artist Sugano Shigetani 菅野繁谷, active c. 1850s?

MAH E 2003-0287

un124📍:

囗囗

c. 1847-1853

應需囗囗

ōju …

attributed to Matsukawa Hanzan

Seal: 充兀狗？

MIA P.77.27.47

un182📍:

広葛

—

茂廣門人
　廣葛画

Shigehiro monjin Hirokuzu(?) ga

from a Kyōto publisher

RUARC arcUP5471

un179📍:

北賀

1829

北賀筆

Hokuga(?) hitsu

said to come from Ōsaka

RUARC arcUP0588

un31📍:

本枝

1886

NDL 10-138 (#37)

c. 1900?

本枝画

Honshi(?) ga

TML 東C374-C003-001

—

本枝画

TML 東C374-C003-006

un82📍:

一畊

1888

一畊画

Ikkō ga

NDL 913.56-Y533t (#4)

un144📍:

一囗

1818 or 1830

一囗

attributed to Mori Ippō 森一鳳

WAM 1901.59.1123

un79📍:

一昇

Hanabusa Isshō

early 19th century

一昇画

Isshō ga

UCSF p256

un121📍:

為蝶

c. 1823-1834

勝し可為蝶

Katsushika Itchō(?)

DJAOC G1305982

un136📍:

如観

c. 1887

如観筆

Jokan(?) hitsu

TPL A04-20

—

RUARC AkoCH-S0035

un25📍:

如集

transcription uncertain

1860

如集写

Joshū sha

PMA 1968-165-122

un61📍:

皆耕

transcription uncertain

1874

應囗皆耕寫

Ō… Kaikō(?) sha

Meitan 764094

un152📍:

鴎

浮田鴎

Ukita Kamome

1888

浮田鷗筆

Ukita Kamome hitsu

KHIRIN H-22-2-47

un158📍:

冠月

1899

需口
　冠月画

… Kangetsu ga

AW 053

un91📍:

鑒斎

1875

鑒齋

Kansai?

Seal: Yamamoto(?) 山本

TML 東035-084-005

un143📍:

艱水

c. 1820

芳邨艱水写

Hōson Kansui sha

WAM 1901.59.1859

un52📍:

関山誠

1850s-1890s

関山誠筆

Kanzansei(?) hitsu

RISD 34.104

un191📍:

花升

—

花升画

Kashō(?) ga

RUARC shiUY0211

un186📍:

活襄

—

活襄画

Katsujō(?) ga

from a Kyōto kappazuri

RUARC BN0382942X-1-34-2

un19📍:

恵斎

1884 (or 1882?)

惠齋画

Keisai(?) ga

possibly Yoshiiku?

TML 220516

un32📍:

景舛斎

1853

景舛齋画

Keisensai(?) (Keishunsai?) ga

TML 東C0411-C029

un20📍:

金堂

1855

金堂筆

Kindō(?) hitsu

from a namazu-e print

TML 7456

c.f. RUARC arcUP5592

un166📍:

琴鱗

1817

琴鱗写

Kinrin sha

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.316 (v.1 p.28)

un206📍:

貴徳

1872

貴徳画

Kitoku(?) ga

RUARC RV-2732-8-8

un90📍:

囗囗

1889

清囗筆

Kiyo(?)… hitsu

NIJL RTJB-00604

un187📍:

清慶

c. 1725-1760

鳥居清慶筆

Torii Kiyoyoshi(?) hitsu

RUARC Z0164-121

un99📍:

古囗

1856

古囗写

Ko(?)… sha

古花? 古苻?

RUARC arcBK04-0041 (#03)

un2📍:

紅園

probably 1856

丙辰春
　香園

Hinoe tatsu haru Kōen

attributed to Nagayama Kōin (Bokusai), 1765-1849

Brooklyn 79.190.6

un199📍:

昏章

evidently an idiosyncratic Katsukawa Shunshō signature?

1770

昏章画

Konshō(?) ga

MAK KI 10670

un163📍:

晃嶺

1847

晃嶺

Kōrei

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.538 (v.1 p.2)

un135📍:

高斎

Lavenberg Coll.

1883

高齋画
　年親校

Kōsai ga, Toshichika kō

variously attributed to several students of Yoshitoshi

RUARC arcUP7544

un181📍:

光之

1889

景色
　光之筆

keshiki Kōshi(?) hitsu

student signature on a Kunisada III print

RUARC shiUYa0050

un137📍:

好貞

c. 1870s-1890s

好貞画

Kōtei(?) ga

TPL A04-7

un141📍:

湖東

1895

湖東画

Kotō ga

Princeton 3j333500t

un72📍:

国囗

1897

應需
　國囗画

Ōju Kuni… ga

perhaps "Kunifuji" 国藤?

NDL 特46-226 (#52)

un88📍:

くに秀

1898

久二秀画

Kunihide? ga?

NAMA 2003.36.2

un156📍:

国麿

1818-1830

國麿画

Kunimaro ga

doesn't look that much like 麿 to me...

KHIRIN H-22-1-21-141

un174📍:

国升

1830-1854

一猿斎国升画

Ichiensai Kunimasu ga

Gakugei Su30

un12📍:

国直

1892

瓢亭國直

Hyōtei Kuninao

JAC 09057

un21📍:

国俊

1886

察齋國俊筆

Satsusai? Kunitoshi? hitsu

transcription uncertain

TML 51289

un148📍:

国悦

late 1820s

國悦画

Kuniyoshi(?) ga

MFA 11.15420

un60📍:

空春斎

—

空春齋画

Kūshunsai(?) ga

CB 448

un161📍:

旭峰

could also be read Akimine

1869

樽旭峰筆

Seal: Shimei? 子明

Waseda 007-0652

1875

樽旭峰

Seal: 子明

Keio Bonn 017-497

c.f. RUARC arcUP8059

un155📍:

政照

1887

梅窓政照筆

Baisō Masateru hitsu

KHIRIN H-22-2-154

un28📍:

又平

1903

又平画

Matahei(?) ga

Hankyu 4675-01

un188📍:

眠竜

—

眠龍画

Minryū(?) ga

from Kyōto

RUARC arcUP6112

un162📍:

岷嶂

1835

岷嶂

Minshō

MAH E 2013-0076

un115📍:

囗囗

1894

森東囗囗

Moritō …

BnF ZF-10 (2)-FT 5

un153📍:

夢中

暁子亭夢中

Gyōshitei Muchū

1875

暁子亭夢中

Gyōshitei Muchū

KHIRIN H-22-1-21-84

un114📍:

長麿

possibly the artist Kitagawa Nagamaro?

c. 1790-1812

方寸齋長麿

Hōsunsai(?) Nagamaro(?)

BnF PET FOL-OD-173 (#23)

un58📍:

長芳

—

長芳画

Nagayoshi(?) ga

CB 364

un86📍:

南卜

1786

戯蝶菴南卜圖

Gichōan(?) Nanboku zu

perhaps the same artist, 青井南卜, who illustrated this kimono pattern book?

WUL ヘ13 01728 (v.2, p.6)

un80📍:

信年

perhaps 信斗 Shinto?

1888

NDL 特12-268 (#49)

un176📍:

王潤

1868-1912

王潤畫

Ōjun ga

Berkeley Sugoroku A992-shin-C76

un123📍:

楽介斎

c. 1804-1830

楽介齋画

Rakusukesai(?) ga

perhaps actually 楽只斎, a gō used by Kō Sukoku?

DJAOC G1306087

un192📍:

蘭斎

c. 1825-1835

南生舎蘭齋画

Nanseisha(?) Ransai ga

from an Osaka kappazuri

RUARC arcUP0583

un149📍:

蘭室

—

蘭室

Ranshitsu(?)

Seal: … Ranshitsu 囗囗蘭室

AW 047

1856

Seal: 高陵

RUARC BM-JH310-2 (#011)

c.f. Pulverer FSC-GR-780.887.1-2 (v.2 p.10)

un8📍:

蘭秀

—

蘭秀画

Ranshū ga

MET JP1836

un24📍:

楼琳

1894

樓琳筆

Rōrin(?) hitsu

Seal: 空

HCCL EE721.8ﾛｳ

c.f. KHIRIN H-22-1-21-119

un202📍:

立魚

1856-1857

應需
　立魚画

ōju Ryūgyo(?) ga

NDL 207-1641 (#5)

un180📍:

貞美

seems not to be the c. 1850 Osaka artist of the same name

1833

貞美画

Sadayoshi ga

RUARC arcUP7803

un48📍:

さくらい

1880s

さくら居

Seal: 丑山

RISD 34.630

un109📍:

さしらう

—

さしらう画

Sashirau ga

Keio Bonn 024-713

un172📍:

青圃

—

青圃写

Seiho(?) sha

AW 064

un171📍:

清霞

Meiji period?

清霞

Seika(?)

WUL 文庫10 08006 0018 (v.18, p.1)

un43📍:

清好

possibly Tani Seikō (谷清好, fl. 1822-1826)?

1833-1855

清好画

Seikō (or perhaps Kiyoyoshi)

print depicts actor Nakamura Tomijūrō II

Waseda 201-5360

un150📍:

盛楼

transcription uncertain

1866

花
　盛楼画

Hana(?) Seirō(?) ga

AW 048

un168📍:

赤斎

transcription and reading uncertain

c. 1820s

赤齋

Sekisai

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.836 (v.1 p.30)

c. 1820s

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.836 (v.1 p.17)

un128📍:

千載

an artist of this name mentioned in 歳成記 (#21) alongside artists like Kikuchi Yōsai and Awashima Chingaku 淡島椿岳 (1865)

1880s

千載

Sensai

Rijksmuseum RP-P-1961-137

un96📍:

雪仙

GUDJ records two artists of this name

—

應需雪僲寫

Ōju Sessen(?) sha

WUL 文庫31 A1955 (p.5)

un117📍:

雪叟

c. 1820s

雪叟

Sessō(?)

BnF Japonais 381 (167)

un10📍:

雪亭

possibly Kawashima Settei (川島雪亭), active c. 1800s-1830s?

1832

雪亭

Settei

seals give long and short months for 1832; attributed to Okamoto Toyohiko

FS S2004.3.195

un147📍:

重光

UBS

1897

重光繪

Shigemitsu e

NDL 特8-192 (#4)

un107📍:

真囗

c. 1900-1910

真囗

Shin…(?)

perhaps 真華? (Shinka?)

NLA OJRB Pic 559

un142📍:

辰鵞

1790-1812

北齋門人辰鵞画

Hokusai monjin Shinga(?) ga

BnF PET FOL-OD-173 (#25)

un56📍:

真一

c. 1880s

真一筆

Shin'ichi(?) hitsu

Seal: 囗齋 (perhaps 欄齋 "Ransai"?)

Rijksmuseum RP-P-1961-134

un26📍:

真囗

perhaps 真厚? maybe Kitagawa Masaatsu?

UBS

1807

真囗筆

Shinkō(?) hitsu

BM 1902,0212,0.224

—

真囗筆

Shinkō(?) hitsu

MFA 11.15027

un126📍:

松翁

c. 1800-1830

松翁画

Shō-ō(?) ga

Harvard 1933.4.1406

un127📍:

松堂

1875

一豊斎松堂筆

Ippōsai Shōdō hitsu

WUL 文庫10 08307 (p.1)

un160📍:

樵夫

1880

驥齋樵夫筆

Kisai Shōfū? hitsu

AW 058

un146📍:

松涛

1880

松濤写

Shōtō(?) sha

Waseda 405-0158

un196📍:

集園

1834

天保五甲午年
　加冬檜集園寫

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.875.1-4 (v.4 p.4)

un7📍:

春玄斎

—

佐久良
　春玄齋寫

Sakura Shungensai sha

Seal: Yūgen 幽玄

MET JP1935

un103📍:

春暁

mid 1820s

勝春曉

attributed to Hayami Shungyosai II; see this article by Keyes

Seal: Katsu 勝

RISD 56.039.71

un184📍:

春宝

1816

春宝画

Shunpō ga

RUARC arcUP2536

un194📍:

春林

—

春林

Shunrin

BM 1902,0212,0.428

un94📍:

春盛

perhaps the same as GUDJ 春盛2?

—

應需
　春盛

Ōju Shunsei(?)

WUL 文庫10 08010 0006 (v.6, p.1)

un185📍:

春石

1816

春石

Shunseki(?)

RUARC arcUP2536

un95📍:

春泉

1797

浪速
　春泉寫

Naniwa Shunsen(?) sha

WUL 文庫31 A1753 (p.2)

un165📍:

秋斎

Roberts p.159

c. 1790-1810

秋齋画

Shūsai ga

AW 060

un49📍:

囗山

c. 1880s

RISD 34.631

un87📍:

蒼示

1797

勝蒼示画

Katsu Sōji(?) ga

NDL 寄別13-64 (#16)

un112📍:

宗有

1790-1812

BnF PET FOL-OD-172 (#12)

un50📍:

翠園

probably 1859

己未皐月
　翠園寫

tsuchinoto hitsuji satsuki Suien sha

date given as 1919, but I think 1859 more likely

RISD 34.629

un97📍:

達摩

1858?

達摩画

Tatsuma(?) ga

from a Kyōto sumizuri-e print

RUARC arcUP6061-198

un6📍:

貞斎

—

貞齋画

Teisai ga

attributed to Teisai (蹄斎) Hokuba, who seemingly never signed 貞斎

MET JP2346

un54📍:

東峩

c. 1880s

東峩

Tōga

RISD 34.632

un159📍:

徳斎

1883

徳斎画

Tokusai ga

ETM 95201306

un197📍:

徳斎

—

徳斎画

Tokusai ga

BM 1915,0823,0.955

un83📍:

としかた

attributed to Mizuno Toshikata but I cannot make it out

UBS

1889

… ga

NDL 特10-805 (#26)

un145📍:

洞章

late 19th century

洞章

Tōshō(?)

perhaps the artist Kanō Tōshō 狩野洞章, aka Ogiwara Shunzan 荻原春山 (1821-1897)?

Seal: 靜囗齋

WAM 1901.851

un129📍:

東洲

1783

東洲寫

Tōshū sha

NIJL 100080682 (#6)

c.f. WUL 852-92

un66📍:

東雲

1858

東雲

Tōun(?)

WUL 文庫31 A1857 (p.4)

un157📍:

豊二

1875

暁齋門人
　豐二

Kyōsai monjin Toyoji(?)

KHIRIN H-22-1-25-16

un85📍:

豊清

Possibly Utagawa Toyokiyo?

1811

豊清画

Toyokiyo ga

TML 特3938

un175📍:

豊洲

1881

perhaps Hoshū?

FCWL 0366

un3📍:

豊丸

c. 1780

豊囗画

Brooklyn 80.264.2

un77📍:

豊次

歌川豊次

Utagawa Toyotsugu

—

豐次画

UCSF p260

un169📍:

囗囗

Presumably an Osaka-based artist

1777

… ga

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.846 (v.1 p.29)

un30📍:

和笑

1829

和笑画

Washō(?) (or Kashō?) ga

from a Kyōto kappazuri print

RUARC arcUP1606

un167📍:

囗囗

Thought to belong to Nanka Sōen 南瓜宗園

UBS

1834

文楼囗囗囗筆

Seal: 文楼

Pulverer FSC-GR-780.440 (v.1 p.47)

un68📍:

大星

c. 1840s

大星氏画

Daishō-shi? Ōboshi-shi? ga

NDL 本別3-53 (#86)

un92📍:

囗囗

c. 1850

囗囗戲画

perhaps "梅囗"? "梅濡"?

WUL ヘ13 01164 0055 (v.58, p.4)

un93📍:

囗囗

c. 1850

囗囗囗囗水画

囗囗梅国水画?

WUL ヘ13 01164 0055 (v.58, p.19)

un39📍:

田親

1860s

田親画

Denshin(?) ga

Seal: 不器

CAM 1906.220

un132📍:

囗渓

1865-1867

囗溪

…kei(?)

NIJL 100080994 (#20)

un195📍:

囗斎

c. 1873

好
〻よふじて
　囗齋画

BM 1973,0723,0.30 (p.44)

un36📍:

囗囗

1890

前囗囗齋筆

from some sort of adaptation of Hokusai's Hyaku monogatari

CAM 1906.248

un73📍:

囗囗

1892

perhaps …秀画? or Motoharu 基春?

Seal: Sakata tō 阪田刀

NDL 特11-394 (#42)

un70📍:

囗囗

1893

perhaps 利…?

NDL 特279-330 (#9)

un105📍:

囗囗

c. 1900-1910

NLA OJRB Pic 314

un125📍:

歌和

c. 1830s

二世
　奴等齋
　歌和

Nisei Dotōsai Utawa

attributed to Toyota Hokkei

Rijksmuseum RP-P-2007-719

c.f. Harvard 1933.4.948

un122📍:

米広

c. 1830-1868

松川米廣画

Matsukawa Yonehiro ga

DJAOC G1306084

un151📍:

米広

1847

from a Kyōto kappazuri

RUARC arcUP6061-209

un118📍:

芳嶺

1909

芳嶺画

Yoshimine(?) ga

RUARC arcUP3096

un76📍:

よし囗

—

武部よし囗

Takebe Yoshi…?

UCSF p295

un173📍:

芳古野

possibly Utagawa Yoshitomi

c. 1845

門人
　一藝齋芳古野画

monjin Ichigeisai Yoshikono ga

MFA 11.42452

un47📍:

芳麿

1820s

芳麿

attributed to Jukōdō Yoshikumi, previously attributed to Yoshimaro, fl. 1807-1846

RISD 34.375

un190📍:

義雅

Meiji

義雅画

Yoshimasa ga

RUARC arcUP4978

—

RUARC arcUP4975

—

蘭和斎芳囗画

RUARC arcUP4973

un177📍:

よし野

1868-1912

よし囗画

Yoshi… ga

Berkeley Sugoroku A992-shin-C107

un134📍:

桜梓斎

1861

櫻梓齋画

Yōshisai(?) ga

BoJ X2/244

un203📍:

芳智

1867-1870s

芳智画

Yoshitomo(?) ga

from a print published in Ishikawa Prefecture

IPL K290.3/112

un37📍:

芳雪

1841

宇多川芳雪画

Utagawa Yoshiyuki ga

seal very similar to one used by Sadayoshi

Waseda 016-0428

un34📍:

雪信

柳斎雪信

Ryūsai Yukinobu

—

柳齋雪信寫

Ryūsai Yukinobu sha

TML 東C3391-C018

un78📍:

瑞彦

perhaps the same as Suzuki Mizuhiko 鈴木瑞彦?

c. 1870

瑞彦画

Zuihiko ga

UCSF p274

Ukiyo-e Signature Sample Database: Unsolved Mysteries

Unknown Artists, Questionable Attributions, Unread Characters, and Other Puzzles

Bairin?

Bairinsō?

Baisessai?

Baisō

Biho?

Bunshōdō?

Chōsho

Chōsui

Dahō?

Daini

Dairei

Danko?

Eikyō?

Eishōsai

Fujisada

Fūkei

Fuku

Fukuju…?

Funamaro?

Gakuki?

Gyokuzan II

Hankoku

Hanzan

Hirokuzu?

Hokuga?

Honshi?

Ikkō

Ippō?

Isshō

Itchō?

Jokan?

Joshū

Kaikō?

Kamome

Kangetsu

Kansai?

Kansui

Kanzansei?

Kashō?

Katsujō?

Keisai

Keisensai?

Kindō?

Kinrin

Kitoku?

Kiyo…?

Kiyoyoshi?

Ko(?)…

Kōen

Konshō?

Kōrei

Kōsai

Kōshi?

Kōtei?

Kotō

Kuni…?

Kunihide?

Kunimaro?

Kunimasu

Kuninao II

Kuni…

Kuniyoshi?

Kūshunsai?

Kyokuhō?

Masateru

Matahei?

Minryū?

Minshō

Moritō

Muchū

Nagamaro?

Nagayoshi?

Nanboku

Nobutoshi?

Ōjun

Rakusukesai

Ransai

Ranshitsu?