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

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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