The Embrace
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
$5,000–$40,000. Common subjects: $5,000–$10,000. Key value factors: Very limited output makes all prints relatively scarce. The 'Styles of Contemporary Make-up' series is most collected.
"The Embrace" is one of Kobayakawa's most intimate and unusual subjects for a bijin-ga: two figures in physical contact, the embrace itself made the central compositional fact. Where most bijin-ga presented single women as objects of admiration, Kobayakawa here depicts the relational — bodies engaged with each other rather than displayed for the viewer. The composition likely focuses on the intertwined forms of the two figures, using the same close-focus approach he brought to facial features.
Not set
Woodblock print
1/1931
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
1924
Oil on board
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
The Embrace was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in Not set.
The Embrace was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
The Embrace depicts figures and bijin-ga.
