Tanabata Bijin
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
Description
"Tanabata Bijin" presents a beautiful woman within the festival context of Tanabata — the star festival celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, associated with the legend of the Weaver Star (Vega) and the Cowherd Star (Altair) who meet once a year across the Milky Way. The festival's themes of longing, brief reunion, and celestial distance give the bijin subject an elegiac emotional resonance. Kobayakawa's woman is situated within both the festive immediacy of the celebration and the mythological yearning it commemorates.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Tanabata Bijin was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in Not set.
Tanabata Bijin was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
Tanabata Bijin depicts bijin-ga.