Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [008]

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Title Block printing: Okumura Masanobu [008]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 24, Japan, Block Printing, Masanobu, 4
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 Photograph of a block print: "Tanabata Festival", by Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764), circa 1710
Caption on Slide "Tanabata Festival", by Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686-1764), tan-e, publisher: Kamatsuya, circa 1710.
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: Original caption information provided as: "[Okumura] Masanobu "The Tanabata Festival", Lg. Oban, tan-e Pub. Kamatsuya c. 1710's"
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/s6q81vxm
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 330815
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q81vxm
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