Okumura Masanobu

Visual Artist

1686 – 1764

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Who was Okumura Masanobu?

Okumura Masanobu 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."

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Born
1686
Japan
Nationality
  • Japan
Died
1764
Japan

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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