| Title |
Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [007] |
| Collection Name and Number |
P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection |
| Photo Number |
Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Masanobu, 3 |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000 |
| Subject |
Okumura, Masanobu, 1686-1764--Photographs; Block printing--Japan--Photographs; Ukiyoe--Japan--Photographs; Men--Art--Photographs; Women--Art--Photographs; Musical instruments--Art--Photographs; Musicians--Art--Photographs; Festivals--Art--Photographs; Art; Ukiyoe |
| Keywords |
Tanabata Festival; Instruments |
| Description |
Photo of a block print by Japanese artist Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764), portraying 'The Tanabata Festival' |
| Caption on Slide |
Okumura Masanobu "The Tanabata Festival" large oban, tan-e, Pub. Komatsuya, c. 1710's, Accoutrements of the festival with 2 magpies (assistants to lovers - above in the Milky Way (Sep. by it)- they meet (over) once each year helped by the magpies. Children rise early on festival day, collect morning dew to prep ink & write poems on strips of paper to attach to bamboo poles to pray for proficiency in calligraphy & sawing. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Textual Date |
1947-2004 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6v12mps |
| 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 |
330814 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v12mps |
