Okumura Masanobu

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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."

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• Grove dictionary of Art
• Fine Art Museum San Francisco
• Library of Congress on ukiyo-e
• Metropolitan Museum