by Kaoru Kawano
$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kawano's early death at 49 limits her output. Her dreamlike figure prints are most sought after.
Twilight (B) is one of Kawano's nocturnal mood compositions, capturing the threshold moment between day and night when light and shadow exist in uneasy equilibrium. The B designation indicates a variant of an earlier twilight design, with alterations in color palette or compositional arrangement. Twilight in Japanese aesthetic tradition — tasogare, literally "who is that?" — was the time when familiar forms became ambiguous and uncertain, and Kawano's treatment of the subject honors this poetic association with the dissolution of clear perception.
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.
Twilight (B), Shôwa period, was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
Twilight (B), Shôwa period, depicts night scenes.
