Twilight C- oban
by Kaoru Kawano
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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.
The [oban](/glossary/oban)-format Twilight C gives Kawano's third twilight variant its largest and most developed expression. The bigger sheet allows him to extend the gradation between light and dark across a wider field, creating an image that surrounds the viewer in the particular quality of fading daylight. A figure within this atmosphere would be caught between the familiarity of the day and the mystery of the approaching night, suspended in the threshold moment the title names.
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 C- oban was created by Kaoru Kawano (川野薫).
Twilight C- oban depicts night scenes.
