Bijin with a fan
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$5,000–$40,000. Beauty prints by this artist are particularly sought after. Modern beauty series: $12,000–$25,000. Key value factors: Very limited output makes all prints relatively scarce. The 'Styles of Contemporary Make-up' series is most collected.
In "Bijin with a Fan," Kobayakawa depicts a woman holding the traditional folding fan — an accessory that functioned simultaneously as practical tool, social signal, and aesthetic object in Japanese culture. His rendering emphasizes the woman's confident handling of the fan: it is not a coy prop but an extension of her physical self-possession. The fan allowed artists to explore gesture and the relationship between hand and object, and Kobayakawa uses it here to animate the figure and create compositional rhythm.
Not set
Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bijin with a fan was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in Not set.
Bijin with a fan was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
Bijin with a fan depicts bijin-ga.
