Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [003]

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Title Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [003]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Masanobu, 2
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1973
Subject Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Clothing and dress--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe; Clothing and dress
Description Photo of a block print by Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764)
Caption on Slide Black and white woodblock print, Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764), Tokugawa, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from 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: "The Edo period (Edo jidai), or Tokugawa period (Tokugawa jidai) is the period between 1603 to 1868 in the history of Japan when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional Daimyo."--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Japanese Masanobu (1686-1764), Black & white wood block, Tokugawa, Japan."--AC
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
ARK ark:/87278/s6kh146p
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 330816
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kh146p
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