Okumura Masanobu

(1686–1764) Japanese artist

Okumura Masanobu (Japan, 1686–1764) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Okumura Masanobu belongs to the chapter ‘Edo: the floating world’ in this site’s history of art.

Okumura Masanobu was born in Edo. Okumura Masanobu worked in Japan. Wikidata associates Okumura Masanobu with hashira-e and uki-e. The students included Okumura Toshinobu, Masafusa Okumura, and Okumura Masatoshi.

The catalogue has 7 works by Okumura Masanobu with free images. The dated works span the years 1715–1800. Works by Okumura Masanobu are held by Metropolitan Museum of Art and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Ogata Kanzan, Kaigetsudō Ando, Miyagawa Chōshun, Miyagawa Issho, and Nishimura Shigenaga.

• Edo: the floating world