Red Lantern Shop
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Tajima's powerful abstract prints have appeal among both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
"Red Lantern Shop" applies Tajima's urban abstracting eye to one of old Japan's most iconic commercial subjects: the red lantern (akachochin) that signals a traditional izakaya or small tavern. The warm reds and dark grounds of such scenes — intimate, hazy, redolent of sake and conversation — are compressed through his woodblock process into a composition that evokes the atmosphere of such places rather than describing them. It connects to his broader interest in the layered surfaces and lived textures of Japanese urban life.
Woodblock print
c. 1833/34
Color woodblock print; oban
c. 1922
Color woodblock print
行商人
c. 1940
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Red Lantern Shop was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).
Red Lantern Shop depicts market scenes and daily life.
