Night Perfume- oban — 梅
by Kaoru Kawano
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Kaoru Kawano
$500–$4,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Kawano's early death at 49 limits her output. Her dreamlike figure prints are most sought after.
The oban-format Night Perfume (Ume, plum) gives Kawano's flowering plum at night subject its fullest treatment. The larger sheet allows the branches to extend across the composition with greater sweep, the pale blossoms set against deep shadow with a contrast that makes each flower glow. This version of the composition demonstrates how Kawano adapted his subjects to different format conventions, each size revealing different qualities in the same essential image.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![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)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Night Perfume- oban — 梅 was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
Night Perfume- oban — 梅 depicts night scenes.
