Okumura Masanobu (????) (artist late 1680s - early 1760s)
Signed: Hogetsudo shomei Okumura Bunkaku Masanobu shohitsu
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Artist's seal: Tanchosai
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Okumura Masanobu (????) (artist late 1680s - early 1760s)
ALTERNATE NAMES:
Baio (go - ??)
Bunkaku (go - ??)
Chikatai (family name)
Gempachi (nickname - ??)
Genroku (nickname - ??)
Hogetsudo (go - ???)
Masanobu (go - ??)
Shidoken (go - ???)
Tanchosai (go - ???)
Okumura Shinmyo (family name - ????)
BIOGRAPHY:
Common name: Genpachi (Genpachiro); go Shinmyo (from 1707), Baio (from 1707), Hogetsudo (from Genbun era, 1736-41), Tanchosai and Bunkaku (both from Enkyo era [?], 1744-8). Ukiyo-e painter, print artist and innovative print publisher, also author and illustrator early in his career. Studied haikai poetry under Tachiba (Shogetsudo) Fukaku (Sen'o, 1662-1753). Said to have been influenced by the work of Moronobu. and Kiyonobu., and his earliest dated work is a copy of Kiyonobu I's Illustrated Book of Courtesans of 1700. published by Kurihara Choemon in the eighth month of 170a. From 1703 to 1711 he designed illustrations for at least 22 ukiyo-zoshi novels and puppet theatre playbooks, notably three works also written by him that parodied Tale of Genji. In the Hoei and Shotoku eras (1704-16) Masanobu designed o-oban prints of beautiful women, horizontal oban sumizuri-e 'parody pictures' (mitat-e) and actor prints...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Japanese Prints
