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Okumura Masanobu

1686–1764 · Japanese

Born
1686 · Edo
Died
1764

106 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Okumura Masanobu was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter who also illustrated novelettes and wrote some early fiction. He was a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e, creating early works on actors and bijin-ga.

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Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women").

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Selected registered works by Okumura Masanobu

Selected from 106 works by Okumura Masanobu in the Collect24 Registry.

Okumura Masanobu, Three Courtesans with a Client

Okumura Masanobu

Three Courtesans with a Client

color woodblock print

26.5 × 37.7 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-539836

Okumura Masanobu, Bedroom Scene

Okumura Masanobu

Bedroom Scene, ca. 1739

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (hand colored)

27.3 × 38.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-246123

Okumura Masanobu, The Actor Nakamuro Tomijuro as a Mounted Warrior

Okumura Masanobu

The Actor Nakamuro Tomijuro as a Mounted Warrior, 1740

Woodblock print (urushi-e)

32.7 × 15.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-240681

Okumura Masanobu, Moon in Musashi Province

Okumura Masanobu

Moon in Musashi Province, ca. 1740

Center sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and applied color ("tan-e") on paper

31.8 × 15.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-225192

Okumura Masanobu, Twilight at Nakanocho

Okumura Masanobu

Twilight at Nakanocho, 1686–1764

color woodblock print

24.4 × 34.5 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-225052

Okumura Masanobu, Young Man Walking Toward the Left on High Geta and Playing the Flute as He Walks

Okumura Masanobu

Young Man Walking Toward the Left on High Geta and Playing the Flute as He Walks, ca. 1745

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

72.4 × 15.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-266010

Okumura Masanobu, Bedroom Scene

Okumura Masanobu

Bedroom Scene, ca. 1739

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (hand colored)

27.3 × 38.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-246137

Okumura Masanobu, Cover From a Japanese Illustrated Book

Okumura Masanobu

Cover From a Japanese Illustrated Book, ca. 1739

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (hand colored)

27.3 × 39.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-255659

Okumura Masanobu, Bedroom Scene

Okumura Masanobu

Bedroom Scene, ca. 1739

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (hand colored)

27.3 × 38.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-246109

Okumura Masanobu, Bedroom Scene

Okumura Masanobu

Bedroom Scene, ca. 1739

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (hand colored)

27.3 × 39.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-246118

Okumura Masanobu, Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Woodcut, Woodblock, Print

Okumura Masanobu

Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Woodcut, Woodblock, Print

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

C24-723277

Okumura Masanobu, Onoe Kikugorō in the role of Yaoya Oshichi and Nakamura Kiyosaburō as her lover the koshō (page) Kichisaburō

Okumura Masanobu

Onoe Kikugorō in the role of Yaoya Oshichi and Nakamura Kiyosaburō as her lover the koshō (page) Kichisaburō, 1750

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

40.6 × 28.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-227227

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