Chapter 45 - Hashi-Hime - The Bride Maiden - 橋姫
by Ebina Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Typical Price
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Ebina's prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors of Japanese creative prints.
Description
"Hashi-Hime" (The Maiden of the Bridge) is Chapter 45 of The Tale of Genji, the opening of the celebrated Uji chapters in which Prince Kaoru discovers the daughters of Prince Hachi living in remote retirement at Uji on the Uji River. The "bridge maiden" of the title refers to the spirit believed to inhabit Uji Bridge, and to the eldest daughter Oigimi, as elusive and melancholy as a supernatural figure. Ebina's print captures the haunting atmosphere of the Uji setting — the mist on the river, the sense of a world apart from the capital, the quality of beauty tinged with sadness.
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
