# Plate from the Erotic Book Mounds of Dyed Colors: A Pattern Book for the Boudoir (Someiro no yama neya no hinagata), First Month, in Ukiyo-e

Okumura Masanobu designed this in about 1736–44, aged about 50. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1736–44
- Medium: Hand-colored woodblock illustration; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: H. 9 9/16 in. (24.3 cm); W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1499
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Okumura Masanobu](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/okumura-masanobu), Japanese, 1686–1764

Masanobu was a largely self-taught artist of early ukiyo-e who also ran his own publishing house in Edo. Over a long career he worked through the major developments of the period, from black-ink sheets to hand-coloured designs and early two-colour pictures.

4 works in the collection.

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