Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [001]

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Title Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [001]
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Masanobu, 1
Description Photo of a block print, Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764), (possibly sumizuri-e)
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1973
Subject Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Architecture, Japanese--Art--Photographs; Pavilions--Art--Photographs; Pagodas--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Caption on Slide Black and white woodblock print, Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764). Before color printing.
Additional Information Image was scanned from black & white slide. Note: "Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764) 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 bijinga, 'beautiful women.'"--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information for this image provided as: "black and white wood block print Okamura Masanobu Before color printing. Neder"--AC
Type Image
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ARK ark:/87278/s6zs3ccr
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 330813
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zs3ccr