Okumura Masanobu [SEP] date of death
Okumura Masanobu
Okumura Masanobu (; 1686 – 13 March 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 bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women").
Life and career.
While Masanobu's early life is largely undocumented,
Okumura Toshinobu
Okumura Toshinobu (, birth and death dates unknown) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is the only known student of Okumura Masanobu; many of his works nonetheless appeared from publishers other than Masanobu.
The majority of Toshinobu's works come from the Genbun era (1716–1741), and are mostly prints in the "beni-e" ("red picture[s]") and "urushi-e" ("lacquer picture[s]") styles. Many of his works depict people selling things