
Two Owls — 蔦もみじのとまり木
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- ukiyo-e.org
Description
Two Owls (蔦もみじのとまり木, Tsuta momiji no tomarigi — literally A perch of ivy and maple) is an F6 woodblock print catalogued under Kasamatsu Shirō on [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org, though, like several of the small-format intimate bird-and-flower designs from the postwar Kasamatsu studio, it has been variously associated with Mihoko in dealer records. The title's Japanese phrasing — referring to a perch (tomarigi) wrapped in ivy (tsuta) and maple (momiji) — places the print squarely in the kachō-e (bird-and-flower picture) tradition, one of the deepest and longest-running genres in Japanese woodblock.






