Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [004]

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Title Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [004]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 61, Hokusai and other Japanese Printers, 7
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 Photograph of block print by Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764), (possibly sumizuri-e)
Caption on Slide Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764).
Additional Information Image was scanned from color 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: "Sumizuri-e ("ink printed pictures")-monochrome printing using only black ink."--Wikipedia. Note: Original caption information provided as: "Woodblock print before color Masamobu c.1750"
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6nc6j4w
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 340181
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc6j4w
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