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拍品专文
Okumura Masanobu was a major artist working mainly in the period before the development of full-colour printing and he is known to have contributed to its development by conducting numerous experiments. This print is from a set of twelve (one for each of the twelve months) whereby on each print the printed black outlines have been added to with hand-colouring using a refined palette of red, earthy yellow and greyish-brown pigments.
For a different design from the same series in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number JP3030, go to: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56428
For further reading on the set see Tim Clark et. al., Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, (British Museum, London, 2013), p. 147-151.
For a different design from the same series in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number JP3030, go to: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/56428
For further reading on the set see Tim Clark et. al., Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art, (British Museum, London, 2013), p. 147-151.