
Ormugai
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Image courtesy of
- Asian Collection Internet Auction
Description
Two nautilus shells rendered in white, rust-orange, and pale blue against a solid black ground, their curved forms overlapping diagonally across the composition. Thin dark line work traces the shells' chambered spirals and mottled banding, with a small cluster of blue-gray shading marking each shell's opening. *Ormugai*, a woodblock print by Fumio Kitaoka (date unknown), isolates the two shells with no other setting or figures present.
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Ormugai was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).



