1title: Brooklyn Museum Fukurojin Tries to Lift Wench - Okumura Masanobu
artist: okumura masanobu
date: between 1700 and 1800
medium: Woodblock print
dimensions: Size cm 26.7 38.7
current location: Brooklyn Museum location|collection=asia Institution:Brooklyn Museum
source: [link Online Collection] of [[w:Brooklyn Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, X879_IMLS_PS3.jpg
credit: Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, X879_IMLS_PS3.jpg
license:Public domain
2title: Okumura Masanobu The Taoist Immortal Kung Ho (?) Riding a Crane - 1916.1170 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: 1723
medium: Color woodblock print
dimensions: Sheet: 31.8 x 16 cm (12 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
current location: Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
license:
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3title: Okumura Masanobu Lady Murasaki at Ishiyama Overlooking a Panorama with Seven Views of Lake B - 1916.1147 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: 1740
medium: Color woodblock print
dimensions: Sheet: 30.4 x 43.2 cm (11 15/16 x 17 in.)
current location: Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
license:
CC0
4title: Okumura Masanobu Perspective View of the Interior of the Nakamura Theater with Ichikawa Ebiz - 1916.1154 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: 1740
medium: Hand-colored woodblock print
dimensions: Sheet: 40.2 x 63.7 cm (15 13/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
description:
The print illustrates the typical interior of a Kabuki theater. The stage was connected to the audience by the hanamichi, the ramp or runway extending from the stage to the rear of the theater over which the actors would strut in dramatic roles. Patrons often stayed all day for the plays. Unlike quiet Western audiences, Kabuki fans were spirited, buying food from vendors and even shouting praises to their favorite actors as they came onto the stage. In 1734, the first Japanese manual on perspective was printed. masanobu was probably the first printmaker to use this method of describing three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional support. He helped popularize the perspective print, and he introduced other innovations such as two-color printing and hand-coloring—this print is hand-colored using yellow, red (tan), and red-brown.license:
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5title: Okumura Masanobu Three Courtesans with a Client - 1985.337 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
medium: Color woodblock print
dimensions: Sheet: 26.5 x 37.7 cm (10 7/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
description:
This double-page book illustration is called a sumizuri (meaning to print with sumi ink on paper). It may be an adaptation of a picture book by Kiyonobu I titled Keisei ehon, or Illustrated Book of Courtesans, portraying the most glamorous people in the ukiyo-e world. masanobu had the greatest influence on the development of the ukiyo-e style during the first half of the 1700s. A publisher, print designer, and painter, he initiated new genres of prints such as the "perspective picture" (uki-e).license:
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6title: Okumura Masanobu A Beauty with a Mirror - 2012.20 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: between 1741 and 1748
medium: Woodblock print with hand-coloring
dimensions: Image: 56.8 x 21.1 cm (22 3/8 x 8 5/16 in.); Paper: 73.2 x 25 cm (28 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
license:
CC0
7title: Okumura Masanobu The Taoist Immortal Kung Ho (?) Riding a Crane - 1916.1170 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: c. mid 1720s
medium: Color woodblock print
dimensions: Sheet: 31.8 x 16 cm (12 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
license:
CC0
8title: Okumura Masanobu Lady Murasaki at Ishiyama Overlooking a Panorama with Seven Views of Lake B - 1916.1147 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: 1740s
medium: Color woodblock print
dimensions: Sheet: 30.4 x 43.2 cm (11 15/16 x 17 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
license:
CC0
9title: Okumura Masanobu Kabuki Play Kusazuribiki from the Tales of Soga (Soga monogatari) - 2015.300.128 - Metropolitan Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: between 1700 and 1799
credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
license:Public domain
title: Okumura Masanobu Yukihira and Two Brinemaidens at Suma - 1975.268.126 - Metropolitan Museum of Art
artist: okumura masanobu
date: between 1700 and 1764
credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art
license:Public domain
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